[Rarebooks] fa: 1793 Gentleman's Magazine: FRENCH REVOLUTION &c. - 2 vols. w/41 PLATES

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, June 5. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCIII [1793]. Volume LXIII. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1793. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, indices and preface. Two volumes, thick 8vo, in early/period half calf and marbled boards; iv, 583, [15] pp.; [2], [585]-1220, [16] pp.; with woodcut illustrations and diagrams and 41 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding (complete).

With much on the FRENCH REVOLUTION in this year which saw the executions of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and the start of the war between France and Britain, a war which would last, off and on, for more than two decades. The 41 plates include engraved portraits and views, antiquities, castles, coins and medals, Whole-length Figures of the Inhabitants of Madagascar, the First Egyptian Alphabet, Proposed Plans for improving the Streets of London (folding), etc., etc.

Bindings rubbed and worn, vol. II's boards are detached and the spine has cracked with the text block split neatly in two; vol. I's binding tender but holding; toning to the leaves with occasional browning and offsetting, scattered light spotting, else generally clean. Internally sound and complete, well worth rebacking.