[Rarebooks] fa: 1820 Gentleman's Magazine: DEATH OF GEORGE III - Cato Street - PARRY EXPEDITION

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. From January to June [and] July to December, 1820. Volume XC [90]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and Son, 1820. Twelve monthly issues (Jan.-Dec.), plus the supplements, volume titles, prefaces and indexes. Two volumes, 8vo, in early/period half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled page edges; iv, 668 p.; iv, 664 p.; with in-text woodcut illustrations and 26 plates, four of which are folding (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: a folding Chart of the North West Expedition; the Basin of the Caledonian Canal at Muirtown near Inverness; a Perspective View of the City of Messina; Remains of  the Gray Friars Monastery, now Christ's Hospital, in London; the Consanguinitarium at Leicester; Statue of Donne in St. Paul's; Tottenham High Cross; an Ancient Tomb-stone at Ashington; Expiatory Monument of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France; Views of: Beeston Castle in Cheshire; Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire; Houses of John Milton in Oxford; Llanfey Palace in Pembrokeshire; St. Giles's Church in Oxford; Pyrton Manor House; Dryburgh Abbey; Gate House at Cerne Abbas in Dorset; Otford Palace in Kent; woodcut illustrations of: the Merry Devil of Edmonton; Mother Sawyer, the Witch of Edmonton; the Life Boat of Captain Marryat; the Eclipse of the Sun; the Rose and Crown Inn at Stoke Newington; plus more views and miscellaneous antiquities, curiosities, etc.

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features and essays:

	- Much on the death of KING GEORGE III, on January 29, 1820, and reactions thereto, including: an extended Obituary/Memoir of our Late Most Gracious King (6 black-bordered, double-column pages); the Funeral of his late Majesty; Monument proposed for our late Most Gracious King; Mrs. Hannah More's Character of George III; An Anecdote of his late Majesty; On the Coronation Ceremonies; Letter from George II to the Prince of Wales; poems: On the Death of his Most Gracious Majesty King George the Third. By J. A. Heraud. Author of Tottenham, a Poem"; On our Revered Monarch's Death, and the Event of the late Trials for Treason; etc.
	- An Account of the NORTH-WEST EXPEDITION under Capt. [William Edward] Parry [an attempt at discovering the Northwest Passage; with accompanying folding chart]
	- Trials of the CATO STREET CONSPIRATORS for High Treason
	- OBITUARIES, with Memoirs of: Sir Joseph Banks; Benjamin West; Arthur Young; Patrick Colquhoun; William Hayley; Christophe, King of Hayti [Haiti]; Prince Edward, Duke of Kent; bookseller Joshua Cooke; Mr. Richard Miles ("the skillful numismatic antiquary"); etc., etc.
	- An Account of Messina
	- Descriptive Account of Rio de Janeiro (in multiple parts)
	- Customs of the Natives of the Feejee [Fiji] Islands (in multiple parts)
	- Hints on Colonization at the Cape of Good Hope
	- Anecdotes of Aboul Hassan, the Persian Ambassador
	- Capt. Marryat's Description of his newly invented Life Boat
	- Description of the Caledonian Canal
	- Account of the Consanguinitarium at Leicester
	- Mother Sawyer, the Witch of Edmonton
	- On Radical Pamphlets published by W[illiam] Hone
	- A review of Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical [by Dibdin himself, reviewing his own work]
	- A review of Dr. Syntax in Search of Consolation [by William Combe]
	- Soliloquy, Written in April 1764, on seeing an Eclipse of the Sun; by an Old Correspondent who has lived to see that of Sept. 7, 1820
	- Custom of Wassailing observed in Herefordshire
	- Modes of Salutation in various Nations
	- Abuses of Sea-bathing and Mineral Waters
	- The Origin of Kissing
	- On Juvenile Depravity
	- Plus: monthly meteorological tables, foreign and domestic news, reviews of books, Select Poetry, Proceedings in Parliament, Theatrical Register, births, marriages, promotions, Bills of Mortality, Prices of Stocks, and much, much more.