[Rarebooks] fa: 1793 Gentleman's Magazine SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Madagascar FRENCH REVOLUTION &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCIII [1793]. Volume LXIII [63]. 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, 8vo, in early/period calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; iv, 583, [15] pp.; [2], [585]-1220, [16] pp.; with woodcut illustrations, tables, and 41 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding (complete).

With extensive contemporary coverage of 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 PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Whole-length Figures of the Inhabitants of Madagascar; the First Egyptian Alphabet; Proposed Plans for improving the Streets of London (folding); a Portrait of Thomas Wright, Mathematician; Seven Images, supposed to be Penates, found in Bevis Marks, London; Medal of the Sultan Mohamet; A distant View of Knaresborough, Yorkshire; a View of a groupe of Rocks near Matlock Bath; a View of the Church of Kedleston, Derbyshire; along with many other views, portraits, coins, inscriptions, antiquities, curiosities, etc.; plus a woodcut illustration of The Maiden, a Machine for beheading Criminals, formerly used in Scotland, resembling the modern Guillotine.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- "To Fortune, on Buying a Ticket in the Irish Lottery," by S.T.C. [SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE; his first published work]
	- OBITUARIES of considerable Persons, including: John Hancock; Jean-Paul Marat (an account of his assassination: "a little man, of a cadaverous complexion, and a countenance exceedingly expressive of the bloody disposition of his mind..."); Louis Philippe, Duke of Orleans ("guillotined at Paris, on the Place de la Revolution, three hours after judgment was pronounced against him..."); Madame du Barry ("guillotined at Paris... the favourite but extravagant mistress of Louis XV and supposed to have been one of the richest women in the universe..."); Madame Roland ("guillotined at Paris... perhaps the most extraordinary woman that this or any other age has produced..."); surgeon and anatomist John Hunter; Lord George Gordon (of Gordon Riots fame); Mr. [Alexander] MacGillivray, "a Creek chief, at Pensacola..."; etc. etc.
	- "A Gypsey Ballad." By PETER PINDAR [John Wolcot]
	- "Complaint." By Mr. [WILLIAM] COWPER
	- Three Sonnets, and a Song, by Miss [MARY] LOCKE
	- Elegy, by Mrs. [JANE] WEST, in the Character of the King of France to his Valet Clery [Jean-Baptiste Cant-Hanet (Clry)], on the morning of his Execution; [and] Elegy, by Mrs. West, in the Character of the Queen of France
	- Letter from Miss [ANNA] SEWARD, on the Life of Johnson
	- "Prison Thoughts," undoubtedly written by Dr. [WILLIAM] DODD [with another by Dodd], "The Adieu." [Dodd was an Anglican clergyman who was hanged for forgery]
	- Sonnet to Rational Liberty, on reading the horrid acts of the Paris Mob
	- Sonnet, to Warren Hastings, Esq. late Governor-General of Bengal
	- Danger of Modern Novels
	- Joseph Priestley's Sermon, preached at the Gravel-pit Meeting in Hackney, April 19, 1793.
	- Remarks on [Andrew] Swinton's Travels into Norway, Denmark, &c.
	- Thomas Watkins's Travels through Swisserland, Italy, Sicily, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople, through Part of Greece, Ragusa, and the Dalmatian Isles
	- Lieut. Rye's An Excursion to the Peak of Teneriffe, in 1791
	- Early Discoveries in Africa
	- The Right of the West India Merchants to a double Monopoly of the Sugar-market of Great Britain, and the Expedience of all Monopolies, examined
	- Falsehood, Paine, and Company, disarmed by Truth and Patriotism. . . . By Timothy Shaveclose, Esq. an Enemy to Blasphemers, seditious Levelers, and ambitious Hypocrites; and The Ass and the Sick Lion; or, The cruel and insulting Mercies of Thomas Paine, the Stay-maker, towards the late King of France
	- Epitaph On Mrs. Vanbutchel, whose Remains, preserved by a curious and newly invented Method of Embalment, are the Object of her fond Husband's daily Attention
	- The History and Titles of Robin-Hood investigated
	- Plus monthly Intelligence from America, the West Indies, Europe, etc., 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.