Excerpt from Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 3: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature Cave, Edward, an English printer, the founder of the Gentleman's Magazine, was born in 1691. His first occupation was that of clerk to a collector of the ex cise in the country. He then went to London, and put himself apprentice to a printer. When his indentures expired, he obtained a place in the post-othee, and em ployed his leisure in writing for the news papers. He published, in January, 1731, the first number of the Gentleman's Mag azine, which has continued till this day, amid the crowd of magazines which have been established since. Cave was depriv ed of his place in the post-othee on ac count of his havia resisted some abuses relative to the pri ege of franking letters. He died January 10, 1754. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.