[Rarebooks] fa: GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE 1832 - 2 vols/26 PLATES - OLD LONDON BRIDGE - EARLY ARCHERY &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, April 14. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle. Volume CII. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by J.B. Nichols and Son, 1832. Twelve monthly issues in two volumes, including volume titles, supplements, indices, prefaces, etc.; thick 8vos bound in period half calf over period/original paper-covered boards; 674, 683 pp.; with 26 plates (complete), some of  which are folding, and numerous in-text illustrations, maps, etc. Bindings with modest bumping and wear to the corners, chips to the spine ends, some creasing to the spines, joints cracking but boards are secure; vol. II with some toning and light foxing to the plates, otherwise the contents are fine: unusually clean, bright and fresh, securely bound.

Subjects of note include:

- OLD LONDON BRIDGE: a memoir, including a plan of the old and new bridges and a plate showing the old bridge "during its its demolition, Feb. 1832."
- EARLY ARCHERY IN ENGLAND: an illustrated multi-part article, accompanied by an engraved folding map of Finsbury Fields.
- A PLAN FOR THE RAISING OF THE ROYAL GEORGE, illustrated.
- CHINA, illustrated with a "Translation of a Chinese Map of the Seat of War in Western Tartary, Nov. 28, 1826."
- SIR WALTER SCOTT: a lengthy (24-page) obituary of Scott, who died Sept. 21.
- ANECDOTES OF WITCHCRAFT in Wiltshire.
- AN ELEGY on the Death of the Author's Favourite Horse, on the 30th January, 1832.
- PLUS Proceedings in Parliament; Foreign News; Book Reviews; Correspondence; Select Poetry; Obituaries; Promotions, Births & Marriages; etc.

Other PLATES include: Trinity Church, Holborn; St. Saviour's, Southwark (2); Facsimile of an unique Autograph of Edmund Spenser the Poet; Otterden Place, Kent (2); Exeter Hall, Strand; Waltham Cross restored; Old and New Hungerford Market (2); Norman Crypt discovered in Southwark; Church of St. Dunstan in the West, London; Ruins of the Nunnery at Iona; etc.