Literaring to go

There were literary and philosophy magazines circling the Gentleman's Magazine.  Later works still repeated titles like History of the works of the learned  or carried titles like
Present state of the republick of letters.

 Memoirs for the ingenious tells you in the title who their intended reader is.

Memoirs of literature speaks to this same rising literacy and advent of the printing press.

Samuel Jebb, the great physician, was responsible for Bibliotheca Literaria

It is important to note that publications were appearing in different languages. When we looked at magazines the first time, we were concerned with what was in Vogue. The origins, distinctions with magazine/journal to one side, speak to a more serious purpose.