[Rarebooks] fa: 1792 Gentleman's Magazine: FRENCH REVOLUTION, AMERICA &c. - 2 vols. 38 PLATES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCII [1792]. Volume LXII. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1792. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period marbled boards, sympathetically rebacked in modern sheepskin with raised bands; iv, 583, [13] p.; [2], [585]-1221, [15] p.; complete with all 38 copper-engraved plates called for, two of which are folding.

Modest rubbing to the boards, bumping to the corners; toning and occasional browning to the leaves; vol. 1 with damp-staining to the first two leaves and the last two plates, intermittent lighter moisture damage elsewhere; small area of worming to the upper fore-corners of the first ca. 60 leaves; vol. 2 with offsetting to some of the plates; otherwise both volumes generally clean and sound, firmly bound and handsomely rebacked. Front paste-down with the engraved armorial bookplate of J. Comyns, Wood [Devon].

With much on the FRENCH REVOLUTION in this year of the September Massacres, etc.: the Proceedings of the National Assembly of France; Manifesto of the Emperor against French King; Remarkable Particulars of the French Emigrants; Judicious Observations on France by an Antigallican; The Wanderer on the present State of France; Horrid Massacres in the Capital of France; a folding plate showing a View of the Temple at Paris [and the] People in tumult with the Head of the Princess Lamballe; etc.

Other features include:
	- INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM AMERICA & THE WEST INDIES: President George Washington's Address to both Houses of the Federal Legislature… on the Opening of Congress; Defeat of the American Troops by the Indians [in Kentucky]; [On the] Increased Population of the United States; Insurrection of the Negroes in St. Domingo; An Answer to the St. Domingo Representation; Dispassionate Remarks on the Slave Trade; Slave Trade, whether forbidden in Scripture; Intrepidity of a British Tar, [with a] Description of the Island of St. Trinidad; etc.
	- Accurate Plan of the Battle of Seryngapatam [Seringapatam, India] (accompanied by a MAP).
	- Particulars of what happened on Board the [American trading vessel] Snow Elinora while at the Sandwich Islands.
	- A Ceremony on board Ships crossing the Line.
	- Particulars of the late Execution on-board the Brunswick.
	- Sketch of a Two Months Tour of Scotland, performed on Horseback in the Summer of 1773 (in multiple parts).
	- Description of Mr. Fell's Electrical Machine (with an engraving).
	- Dr, Harrington on Phlogiston or Fixed Fire (in multiple parts).
	- Mr. Blakey's Dissertation on Fire Engines.
	- A Critique on Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson.
	- Essay on the Evils and Advantages of Genius.
	- Remarks on the modern Turnpike Roads.
	- The Virtues of the Coffee Drink enlarged on.
	- Remarks on the various Opinions of Fairy Rings.
	- Other PLATES include views of the Ruins of the Church at Aldrington, the arched Rock near West Lulworth, the Bridge at Duffield, Boscobel House, Parliament House Dublin, Stratford-upon-Avon, etc.;  portraits of Samuel Richardson, John David Michaelis, etc; an Inscription for a Sun-dial; a Map of a Paddock wherein are numerous Fairy-Rings; Elevation and Plan of the Humane Society's Receiving-house  in Hyde Park; two Sketches of Portraits in profile drawn on a Bible which belonged to Milton; View of the Toll-gates at Hyde Park Corner; coins, tokens, antiquities; etc., etc.
	- Plus parliamentary debates, poetry, monthly Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Obituaries, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.