[Rarebooks] fa: 1797 Gentleman's Magazine: GEORGE WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL - MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT &c.

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCVII [1797]. Volume LXVII [67]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1797. 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, 536, [16] p.; [2], [537]-1138, [10] p.; with 30 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding.

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Portraits of Copernicus and [Theodore] Beza; an Elevation and Plan for a Theatre; Gover's improved Gun-carriages; Front and back Views of the new Barracks in Hyde-park; Elevation of the General Sea-bathing Infirmary at Margate; Pretended Coins of William the Conqueror; Monumental Effigy of Sir Harbord Herrice in the Church of Torregles, in Nithisdale, Scotland (caption trimmed); Caldecot Church as damaged by a Thunder Storm, July 30, 1797; Views of: the Church of Codsall in Staffordshire, the Remains of Donnington Castle, Hardwicke Hall, the Church in Thorney Island in Sussex, the Church at Goxhill in Lincolnshire, the Entrance to Merton College, Elsineur [Elsinor] Castle in Denmark; plus many other views, portraits, coins, medals, inscriptions, antiquities, curiosities, etc..

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Gen. George Washington's Farewell Address to the United States, given on Dec. 7, 1796
	- The Nore Mutiny: extensive coverage and transcripts of the Trials of the Mutineers (in multiple parts across both volumes)
	- Several items on British fears of a French Invasion: Mr. Pitt's speech on the necessary defense in case of invasion; Antient Attacks of the French on these Islands; Orders in the Case of a French Invasion 1642; Transactions of the French in Bantry Bay 1688; Original Letter of Mr. [John] Coke [re "Attack of the French on these Islands"]; History of the Invasions of these Kingdoms
	- OBITUARIES of remarkable Persons, including: Mary Wollstonecraft ("in childbed [giving birth to the future Mary Shelley]... a woman of uncommon talents... however adverse we may be to the system she supported in politicks and morals..."); Edmund Burke (in multiple parts); Horace Walpole (Earl of Orford); John Wilkes; actor Charles Macklin ("the veteran father of the stage,... he had long been in a state of natural decay..."); Frederick William II of Prussia; Field Marshal Jeffrey Lord Amherst;  and "at Frederick-town, Virginia, a Mulatto man, aged 180 — 140 years of which he had been a slave in the family of Col. Syms"; etc., etc.
	- Remarks on the Names of Ships in the Royal Navy [in multiple parts]
	- Remarks on the present Copper Coinage
	- Letter from Dr. [Joseph] Priestley to a Friend in London [on the benefits of life in America]
	- The Effects of Lightning on Caldecott Church in Rutland; Damage by a late Storm in St. Alban's Abbey
	- The tedious Operation of Queen Anne's Bounty; Address to the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty
	- Ode, to the Grave of Handel. By Mr. [Thomas] Maurice
	- Lines on the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke. By Dr. [John] Crane
	- A Poetical Jeu d'Esprit, written in Doctor Walley's Study, which had suffered much Disarrangement from being converted to an Eating- Room
	- Impromptu. On a young Lady's falling into an hysteric fit, by hearing Mrs. Siddons shriek, at the Exeter-theatre, in the Character of Belvidera
	- The Miserable Condition of Chimney-sweepers
	- The Character of an Atheist depictured
	- The Strength of Liquors among the Antients
	- Some Account of the Devil's Hand-writing
	- Plus 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.