[Rarebooks] fa: 1796 Gentleman's Magazine: IRELAND'S SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES Poetry SWALLOWS, &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCVI [1796]. Volume LXVI [66]. Part the First. London: Printed by John Nichols, 1796. Six monthly issues (January-June), plus preface and index. Thick 8vo in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [iv], 536, [16] pp.; with 12 copper-engraved plates (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: a Portrait supposed to be of Benvenuto Cellini; View of the Town of Faringdon; The White Horse, carved in the hill of that name in Berkshire; Monument for John Howard, the Philanthropist, in the Cathedral of St. Paul; View of the New Church at Hackney; Elevation of Lydington Hospital in Rutlandshire; Plan of a Roman Encampment at Chilham; Telegraph on Shottenton Hill, Kent; plus more views, miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Multiple items on the Shakespeare Forgeries controversy: Remarks on Mr. [William Henry] Ireland's Shakspeare [by Edmund Malone]; Mr. [Edmund] Malone on the supposed Shakspearean Manuscripts; Mr. [Francis Godolphin] Waldron on the Miscellaneous Papers of Shakespeare; Mr. Malone's Inquiry [continues]; Note on the purported Shakespearean MSS; Remarks on Malone's Vindication of Shakspeare [by Henry Ellis]; [A list of] Names for and against the Shakspearean MSS; Corrections, by Mr. Malone, on his Inquiry; Mr. Ireland's Announcement of Lear and Vortigern [MSS purportedly in Shakespeare's own hand]; etc.
	- Monthly summaries of Interesting Intelligence from America, the West Indies, the East Indies, the Continent, etc.: Gen. Washington's Speech to Congress [ re. war with the Creek and Cherokee Indians]; dispatches from Barbadoes and Jamaica [termination of the Maroon War]; The Dukes of Orleans and Bourbon Prisoners; etc.
	- Tour through Holland in the Autumn of 1793
	- The Introduction of Monuments in St. Paul's; The Monuments of Mr. [John] Howard and Dr. Johnson described
	- Letters from the late Mr. Gibbon to our Printer
	- A Sacred Ode on the Providential Deliverance of our Most Gracious Sovereign Majesty, October 29, 1795 [re. the madness of King George III]
	- To Haydn [by Thomas Holcroft]
	- Imitation of the Italian Song, "In quel viso furbarello." By Mrs. [Hester Lynch] Piozzi
	- In Memory of Ensign Stevens, of the 39th Regiment, mortally wounded at Gibraltar, Oct. 8, 1781, in the Sixteenth Year of his Age [by Anna Seward]
	- Sonnet, on Miss [Anna] Seward's Poem, "Llangollen Vale"
	- Note on the "Mohawk" London gangs during Queen Anne's reign
	- Departure of a Colony of Swallows from Exeter described; Remarkable Experiment on Swallows, by Mr. John Hunter; Remarks on the supposed Immersion of Swallows; etc.
	- The Severity of a Pennsylvanian Winter exemplified
	- The Kangaroo described, from Admeasurements
	- Remarks on the Roman Station at Verlucio
	- Can Grease be extracted from Paper?
	- Plus monthly meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, 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.