THE MONTHLY MAGAZINE

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These volumes gathering multiple issues of this 18th-century English magazine are NOT PRETTY. They are fragile or broken to the point where we have felt it wise to put them into archival paper "phase boxes" for safe keeping on the shelf. BUT! they are full of interesting matter — and, they are priced according to their condition, not their attractive contents.

Bull-Baiting — Deaf Education — A Mother’s Horrible Crime

•  The contents are indexed; among the items of interest in this particular volume are a brief, skeptical analysis of the Ossian poems signed by one “Meirion,” a report on education of the deaf and dumb, a letter to the editor protesting the sport of bull-baiting, and news of a pregnant wife and mother who, in the throes of depression (she had “evinced a disposition to be very low-spirited” during her previous pregnancies), drowned herself and three of her children, which act the writer considers a “most horrible example of a crime almost new to human nature.”

Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.

•  Disbound; marbled paper–covered boards much chipped and worn, with joints cracking and large portions of spine leather lost or worn down; sewing going, with some leaves separated. Some signatures uncut; page edges untrimmed and in some cases browned. Occasional edge chips. Volume now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.  (5149)

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More Varia . . .

(English Literary Periodical).

•  Among the items of interest in this particular volume are a biography of Kant, an account of Jefferson’s inaugural speech, an Italian travelogue, reviews of the newest portraits, and a publication announcement for a book of “Greek, Albanian, Wallachian, Turkish, Arabian, Persian, Chinese, and Moorish national Songs and Melodies” collected by Edward Jones, the Prince of Wales’s bard.

Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate (bearing the motto “Factis dictisque simplex”: Make what you say simple) of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.

•  Paper-covered boards, worn and chipped, covers all but off, leather lost over spine; sewing going, with many signatures loose. Edges untrimmed, some signatures uncut; occasional offsetting or small spots, with pages mostly clean. Now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.  (5147)

Travels Translation Transmigration

•  The contents are indexed; among the items of interest are a travelogue describing a journey along the Amazon and through Mexico, a letter to the editor regarding mistranslations of French words, a discussion of a Native American tribe allegedly of Welsh descent, and reviews of recently published works on history.

This volume contains one plate, an oversized folding map of Austria.

Provenance: From the collection of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.

•  Paper-covered boards, much worn and abraded, with covers detached and spine leather chipped and cracking; now contained in a simple acid-free phase box. Edges untrimmed and, in some instances, ragged. Sewing loosening with some leaves separated; varying degrees of browning with pages otherwise generally clean.  (5130)

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