[Rarebooks] fa: LADY'S MAGAZINE 1759 - Oliver Goldsmith, Botanical Plate, French and Indian War

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, October 25. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[Oliver Goldsmith, ed.:] The Lady's Magazine, for November, 1759. [London: J. Wilkie, 1759.] Slim 8vo (21 cm) in modern marbled wraps, custom morocco-backed clamshell case; [97]-146 p. (50 pp.); woodcut ornaments, musical notation, one hand-colored engraved botanical plate (Hawkweed, Venus Navel Wort).

Browning to the leaves and plate, otherwise a handsome presentation of an uncommon survivor. Not to be confused with its later and longer-running namesake which first appeared in 1770, this iteration of the Lady's Magazine lasted only from 1759-63 and was (probably) edited by Oliver Goldsmith. In addition to the description of hawkweed and Venus's navelwort accompanying the plate, this issue also contains the music and lyrics of the song Colinet; "Particulars of the Company at the King's [George II] Birthday"; a description of "the Dress of a Lady of 1640"; original poetry, letters, and a collection of "miscellaneous memoirs" from overseas, including one from America describing the latest events in the French and Indian War ("We hear that the Upper Cherokees have actually stopt the communication to fort Loudoun, and have scalpt and killed two of the soldiers of that garrison, and another white man... The Indian war, suspected by many, and regarded by a few as chimerical, has at last proved an affair of the most serious consequence...").