EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, London, August, 1791  Not only is this one of the less common titles from the 18th century, but this issue was never bound nor trimmed and still has the original blue wrappers intact--rarely found as such.
The layout and content is similar to those of the more common Gentleman's Magazine. There are several articles concerning Dr. Joseph Priestley, and a brief article titled: "Political Anecdote of Dr. Franklin, by Mr. Burke".
Complete in 80 pages, 5 3/4 by 9 inches, nice condition. The outer wrappers have 4 pages, nice condition.

Background: This exceptionally rare, museum-grade issue of the European Magazine from August 1791 is an extraordinary survivor of 18th-century print culture, remaining completely unbound and untrimmed within its original, temporary blue paper wrappers—ephemeral packaging that subscribers almost universally discarded when binding full volumes into leather. The historical content within its 80 pages is profoundly significant, capturing the immediate, hot-off-the-press fallout of the Priestley Riots of July 1791, where a reactionary "Church and King" mob destroyed the home, laboratory, and invaluable scientific instruments of Dr. Joseph Priestley, the pioneering chemist who isolated oxygen, due to his controversial support for the French Revolution. Simultaneously, the issue preserves a rare piece of early Anglo-American political ephemera through an anecdote about Benjamin Franklin by British statesman Edmund Burke, published just a year after Franklin’s death, illustrating the fractured but deep intellectual ties between Britain and the newly independent United States. Because it escaped the bookbinder's knife, this piece stands as a pristine, physically unaltered time capsule that captures the intense ideological warfare, scientific vulnerability, and geopolitical shifting of the transatlantic world at the dawn of the 1790s.