THE NEW Lady's Magazine; Or, Polite, Entertaining, Fashionable, and Complete COMPANION FOR THE FAIR SEX: Entirely Devoted to Their Ufe and Amusement. A WORK far Superior to every other PUBLICATION of the KIND hitherto PUBLISHED, or now PUBLISHING. CONTAINING More in Quantity, and a much greaser Variety of New, Original, and fele& Pieces (in Profe dvolej on the most curious, ufeful, and entertaining Subjects-together with a greater and more legant Variety of Copper-pla os, than are to be found in any od Magazine of this Kind whatTier-And including, among an infinite Variety of other ufeful and intereftng Particulars, uble lays, Letters, Difiestations, Treatifes, and curious Productions, relating to Tafte, Profperity, Poetry, &c. &c. And many other Mifcellaneous Subjects of Knowledge and Pleafure, which render this New Lady's Magazine a molt agreeable Companion (far preferable to any other Work of the Kind, to Female Readers, of every Age, Rank, and Condition in Life. TOGETHER WITH faithful Regifter and Journal of the whole Tranfactions of the Times, Foreign and Dometic; Births, Marriages, Deaths, Promotions, Preferments, &c. and Critical and Imaria! O fervations on fuch new Books and Publications as are offered to the Ladies either for their improvement or Entertainment. The Whole Publifhed under the immediate Inspection of THE REV. MR. CHARLES STANHOPE, Editor of the NEW POLITE TUTORESS, OF LADY'S BEST INSTRUCTOR. PUBLISHED BY THE KING'S ROYAL LICENCE AND PROTECTION, A N D INSCRIBED TO THE PRINCESS ROYAL OF ENGLAND. For the YEAR 1791. ELLISHED with the greatest Variety of elegant, superb, and numerous pper-ilates, Portraits, Patterns, Songs iet to Mufic, and other BELLISHMENTS, worth of themselves alone above double the Frice of e whole Work. LONDON: ed, by Royal Authority, for ALEX. HOGG, at the KING'S ARMS, 0. 16, Paternofter-Row, and fold by all Bookfellers, Stationers, and twfcartiers, in Town and Country. [Published Monthly, Price only 6d.] THEN PUBLY 166162 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900. COPY of the KING'S ROYAL LICENCE and PROTECTION, granted at MAJESTY'S PALACE, at St. James's, for the PUBLICATION of 1 NEW and IMPROVED LADY's MAGAZINE. GEORGE R. GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, King of Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, fender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these prefents fhall come greeting. Whe our trufty and well-beloved ALEX. HOGG, of Paternofter-Row, in our City of London, Bo feller, hath by his petition humbly reprefented unto Us, that he has, at the request of a great ni ber of his Corefpondents in different parts of our Kingdoms (who are diffatisfied with the Exe tion of former Works of the Kind herein defcribed) employed, at a very great Expence, m learned Perfons to write and compile an extenfive Variety of fuitable pieces, fuch as Effays, 1 lertations, and other productions on various fubjects, folely calculated for the Ufe and Amuler of the Ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland, &c. Which pieces the Petitioner is now about to lih, under the Title of the NEW LADY's MAGAZINE, or polite and entertaining Compan for the Fair Sex, being devoted intirely to their Ufe and Entertainment, and executed on a new. improved plan, and to be continued on the firit Day of every Month. The Petitioner has a with much Labour and Expence, procured many original Drawings, Defigns, and Copper-Plai by the belt artifs, to embellish and illustrate the faid periodical Undertaking; and moreover engaged, in confequence of a valuable Confideration, the Rev. Mr. CHARLES STANHOPE digeft the aforefaid Materials, and to fuperintend the Monthly publication of the faid NE LADY'S MAGAZINE. Therefore, as the perfecting the fame has been attended with very gr Care, Labour, Study, and Expence, the Petitioner is defirous that Himself, his Heirs, and Affigy may reap all advantages from the Sle thereof. To this End, the Petitioner, knowing that Wes ever defirous of encouraging every attempt to diffufe ufeful Knowledge among our fubjects, pl fumes, with the utmott Humility, to folicit our Royal Licence and Protection to Himfelt, his He Exécutors and Aligns, for the fole printing, publishing, and vending, of the faid Work. W being willing to give all due Encouragement to his undertaking, are graciously pleafed to co defcend to the Petitioner's Request; and we do therefore by thefe preients, as far as may agreeable to the nature in that Cafe made and provided, grant unto him, the faid ALEX. HOG his Executors, Adminitrators and Aligns, our Royal Licence and Authority, for the fole prinun publishing, and vending the faid work, ftrictly forbidding all our fubjects, within our Kingdor or Dominions, to reprint or abridge the fame, either in the like, or in any fize or manner wha ever; or to import, buy, vend, utter, or diftribute any Copies thereof, reprinted beyond the Sta without the Confent or Approbation of the faid ALEX. HOGG, his Executors, Adminirate and Affigns, under their Han's and Seals first had and obtained, as they will answer the contrary their Peril. Where of the Commisioners and other Officers of our Customs, the Mafter, Warde and Company of Stationers are to take Notice, that due Obedience be rendered to our Pleafu herein declared. Given at our Court at St. James's. By His MAJESTY's Command, SYDNEY. THE Or, Polite, Ufeful, Entertaining, and Fashionable Mae in Quantity, and a much greater Variety of New, Orignal, and Select Pieces (in Profe Verf on the most curious, ufeful, and entertaining Subjects, than are to be found in the (Embellished with, 1. An elegant FRONTISPIECE for the Year 1791.-2. A beautiful Print of CADWALL, a British Tale.-3. A New PATTERN of NEEDLE-WORK for APRONS; all elegantly engraved by the mott distinguished Artists.—And, (4.) SOPHIA, a New Song Set Ihe Whole Published under the immediate inspection of THE REV. MR. CHARLES STANHOPE, Author of the NEW POLITE TUTORESS, or Young Ladies' Beft Inftruder. |