[Rarebooks] fa: 1801 Gentleman's Magazine: LORD NELSON GOES TO FONTHILL ABBEY + GHOSTS, BEEKEEPING &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCCI [1801]. Volume LXXI [71]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by Nichols and Son, 1801. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplement, volume title, preface and indexes. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; iv, 583, [14] p.; [584]-1217, [19] p.; with 26 copper-engraved plates (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: View of the Entrance to Fonthill Abbey, Wilshire, exhibiting the reception of Admiral Lord Nelson, December 20, 1800, by torchlight; Design for a Flag, or new Union Jack; Plan for a Bee-house; Plans and View of an antient Encampment at Marston Trussell in Northamptonshire; Elevations and Plan for at Gaol at Bury, Suffolk, by Brown; Monument by Bacon for Mrs. Ann Allardyce in the Church of St. Nicholas at Aberdeen; Portrait of Sophonisba Angussola, an Italian Paintress; Plan shewing the numerous mounds of earth in Glamorganshire; autographs of: Horatio Baron Nelson (written when Sir Horatio Nelson), Admiral Sir Hugh Palliser, John Duke and Sarah Duchess of Marlborough; views of: the Church and Parsonage House at Boothby Paynal, Lincolnshire; the Ruins of Conisborough Castle in Yorkshire [and] a Plan of the same, Somerset Almshouse at Froxfield, the Cheese Cake House in Hyde Park (foxed), Old Sarum, the Ruins of Lantony Abbey in Monmouthshire; plus more views, miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, coins, inscriptions, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Several items related to LORD NELSON: Characteristic Anecdotes of the Hero of the Nile (in a Letter from a Gentleman present at the Festivities at Fonthill Abbey); Account of Lord Nelson's Reception at Fonthill (in multiple parts); a Remarkable Anagram of Horatio Nelson; the Autograph of the gallant Hero of the Nile; victory at Copenhagen; action off Boulogne; etc.
	- Ongoing contemporary coverage of the WAR WITH FRANCE: Naval Actions between the Favorite and le Voyageur, the King George and Le Flibustier, the Mercury and la Sans Pareille, etc.; life of the chief Consul endangered; France threatens England with invasion; Concordat with the Pope; expedition for the purpose of reducing St. Domingo; progress of the British forces in Egypt; Menou's reasons for the surrender of Alexandria; Treaty of Peace between England and France; etc.
	- On GHOSTS; On the Existence of Ghosts; Appearance of Ghosts; The Cambridge Ghost; Mr. Naylor's Apparition; The Appearance of Spirits; Reflections on Supernatural Admonitions; Further Remarks on the Subject of Ghosts; etc.
	- The Keeping of BEES warmly recommended; Apiaries and the Honey-tree recommended; The Southern Faunist on Bees and Hives; The Tom-tit a Devourer of Bees; etc.
	- An early mention of the discovery of the Rosetta Stone ("General Dugua, lately returned from the Egyptian expedition, brought home two copies of a remarkable inscription found on a piece of black and extremely fine-grained granite..." etc.)
	- Account of a Chinese MS. in the British Museum
	- Vigour and Promptitude of the Police in China
	- Remarks on inscribed Bricks from Babylon
	- Interesting Particulars of the Revolution in Holland
	- A Plan proposed for the new Gaol at Bury
	- Account of Sophonisba Angussola and her Sisters
	- The Importance of the Cow-pox Inoculation
	- Naval Poetry (Ode, Written on board his Majesty's Ship the Canterbury, after she had lost all her Masts in a Storm; Billy Moor; To the Memory of Admiral Frederick; etc.)
	- To Mr. [Robert] Southey, On reading his beautiful, but seductive Ode, written on Sunday Morning
	- Mrs. Piozzi's Retrospection; Mrs. Piozzi's Appeal against the Critical Reviewers; Mrs. Piozzi's Answer to the Critical Reviewers; On Mrs. Piozzi's Answer to the Critical Reviewers
	- The Real Author of "High Life below Stairs"
	- Letter from a Repentant Highwayman
	- Improprieties in Theatrical Representations
	- A late Gypsey Feast in New Forest described
	- Exemplary Friendship of two Maiden Ladies
	- The Musical Mania introduced amongst the English Peasantry
	- OBITUARIES, with Anecdotes, of remarkable Persons, including: Benedict Arnold; Emperor Paul I of Russia ("found dead in his bed at 4 o'clock this morning;" i.e., assassinated); poet and physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater; composer Domenico Cimarosa; sinologist M. [Joseph] de Guignes, "the only person in Europe perfectly acquainted with the Chinese language..."; Miss Sarah Riggs "of No. 10 Charlotte-street... [in] another dreadful instance of the extreme danger with which the fashionable articles of female dress are worn in any careless situation near a fire..."; etc. etc.
	- Plus news from America, foreign and domestic news, monthly meteorological tables, parliamentary debates, poetry, Prices of Stocks and Goods, Accounts of Theatrical Performances, Reviews and Extracts of Books recently published, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.