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A cursory examination was made of other numbers of GM for 1738 and 1742. The running titles of various copies were checked against the IEN copy to determine whether the upper right serif of the T was lacking on the same pages as in the IEN copy. A check of 19 copies of the 1738 volume showed no significant difference in the T's for the January-December numbers. The differences in copies of the Supplement led to the discrimination of the two impressions already discussed. A check of 23 copies of the 1742 volume showed no significant difference in the T's for the April-September or November-December numbers. (This check could not be used on the 1742 Supplement, for the T was not broken in any of the RTs.) Besides the three editions of the January number, which have already been discussed, the examination also indicated reprintings of the following other numbers of GM, but no detailed investigation of them was made.

The 23 copies of the 1742 numbers of GM that were compared to the IEN copy are the following: TNG MoU IaU Mi MoSW OCU OO OMC OCl OU WM MnHi I InI Da MoS KyU MiDU In InU KU OWC KyBgW.

The Gentleman's Magazine for February 1742

20 of the copies examined conform to IEN; 3 do not. The upper right serif of the T in the RT does not print on the following pages:

     
IEN:  76  86  90  92  94  96  100  108 
OCl:  76  84  88  94  96  100  108 
OCU, ODa:  72  94 
The OCl copy is not an original number, for on p. 89 there is a cross-reference to the following (March) number of the magazine: "See Scheme V. p. 147, with Observations upon it p. 149." OCU and ODa differ from IEN and OCl in the ornament across the top of the first page of text, p. 59. OCU and ODa have an ornament with a lion and unicorn in the center; IEN and OCl have an ornament with a sun in the center.

The Gentleman's Magazine for March 1742

20 copies conform to IEN; 3 do not. The upper right serif of the T in the RT does not print on the following pages:

     
IEN:  128  138  152  154  156  164 
Mi, WM:  122  128  138  144  152  154  160  164 
ODa:  122  128  138  148  152  154  160  164 

The Gentleman's Magazine for October 1742

22 copies conform to IEN; 1 does not. The upper right serif of the T in the RT does not print on the following pages:

   
IEN:  510  522  526  534  540 
ODa:  510  530  534  540  550