[Rarebooks] fa: ANTI-JACOBIN REVIEW 1798-99 - Godwin, Wollstonecraft &c. - JAMES GILLRAY PLATE

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The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor. Vols. I & II. [From July, 1798 to April, 1799 (Inclusive)]. London: Printed for the Proprietors and published by J. Whittle, at the Anti-Jacobin Office, 1799. First editions thus. Two volumes, 8vo (22 cm), in early half calf and marbled boards; 861, [1] pp.; 586 pp.; with three engraved plates (only), one of which is folding.

Externally rough but internally sound. Bindings with spine leather largely missing, joints cracked with one board detached, another nearly so; front paste-downs with the bookplates of the Oriental Club (no other internal library marks); dust-soiling to the edges of the text blocks, contents mildly toned with occasional small spots, else quite clean and sound.

The first two volumes (nine issues) of this arch-Tory, reactionary periodical, featuring an engraved plate by James Gillray ("Councellor Ego" [Lord Erskine]), scathing reviews of William Godwin's "Memoirs of Mrs. Wollstonecraft" and Thomas Paine's "Letters to the People of France," etc. "Designed to follow the example of William Gifford's Anti-Jacobin; or, Weekly Examiner (1797), as an attack on democrats, radicals, Catholics, Irish independence, and French ideas; includes anti-democratic cartoons, reviews of plays, books and politics" (ESTC).