[Rarebooks] fa: 1823 Gentleman's Magazine - EDWARD JENNER, ESKIMOS, SUSPENSION BRIDGE, &c. - 28 Plates

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The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. From January to June [and] July to December, 1823. Volume XCIII [93]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and Son, 1823. 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, 676 p.; iv, 672 p.; with numerous in-text woodcut diagrams and illustrations, and 28 full-page plates, three of which are folding (complete).

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: Bridge of Suspension: Winch Bridge over the Tees at Durham (folding); a Portrait of Miss Hannah Thatcher, born Deaf and Dumb; British Hirundines (chimney swallow, martin, swift, etc.; 2 plates); Altar-piece belonging to the Abbey of St. Mary de Pratis, Leicester; a Basaltic Cyclops near Catania; Roman Bath found at Farley; views of: Bossal House, Yorkshire; St. Nicholas's Church, Liverpool; Remains of St. Bennet's Abbey at Holme, Norfolk; Residence of Robert Bloomfield in Pitcher's-court; Tower of the Grey Friars, Richmond (folding); Charlton King's Church, Gloucestershire; Three Hats Public House [and other] Old Houses at Islington; The Leasowes in Shrophsire; woodcut illustrations of: the site of an ancient Camp near Enfield; Houses of ancient Britons; an ancient Beacon at Everton; ancient Door in the Bocardo, Oxford; Bas-relief of St. George at Nuremberg; with other views and miscellaneous coins, medals, antiquities, curiosities, etc. Plus a folding plate of sheet music for "'Change thy mind, since she does change;' A Canzonet, by Dr. [Franz Joseph] Haydn, (Which the Editor believes has never been printed in England)..."

Notable, curious, and/or characteristic features and essays include:
	- OBITUARIES, with Memoirs of: Edward Jenner ("the discoverer of Vaccination"); Admiral Lord Viscount Keith; Admiral John Jervis, Earl of St. Vincent; Gen. John Hope, Earl of Hopetoun; Gen. Charles-François Dumouriez; Thomas Lord Erskine; actor John Philip Kemble ("the first Tragedian of our times"); authors Anne Radcliffe (The Mysteries of Udolpho) and William Combe (The Tour[s] of Doctor Syntax); poet Robert Bloomfield (The Farmer's Boy); economist David Ricardo; eminent physicians John Aikin and Matthew Baillie; Pope Pius VII; Thomas Erskine; M. the Chevalier Hippolyto Joseph da Costa Furtado de Mendoça ("latterly Chargé d'Affaires of the new Brazilian Government in this country"); etc., etc.
	- Robert Stevenson [grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson] on Bridges of Suspension
	- The Manners of the Esquimaux [Inuit] Indians
	- Origin and Purposes of Stonehenge; Stonehenge. A Newdigate Prize Poem, recited at the Theatre, Oxford, June 1823. By T. S. Salmon
	- Account of the Island of Iona
	- Journal of a Midshipman in the Mediterranean (in multiple parts)
	- Case of Miss Thatcher, born deaf and dumb ("who was presented to the late Queen Charlotte on acquiring the sense of Hearing & the faculty of Speech under the treatment of Mr. Wright")
	- Animadversions on the Character of Buonaparte
	- Observations on British Hirundines; On the Decrease of Hirundines
	- On Egyptian Hieroglyphical Writing; Dissertation on a Sculpture found in Egypt
	- On Englishmen buried abroad; Epitaphs on Englishmen buried at Rome; Account of Englishmen buried at Venice
	- Lines on the Death of Edward-Luke Booker, who was accidentally drowned, in the 11th Year of his Age, at Eton College, Dec. 9, 1822. By an affectionate Brother
	- Epitaph on Benjamin Tremlyn, An old Soldier, buried in Bremhill Church Yard, who died Dec. 1, 1822, aged 92. By the Rev. W. L. Bowles
	- Sonnet, to an Atheist. By Mrs. Wolferstan
	- Effusion by [John] Clare, the Northamptonshire Peasant
	- On the Depravity of the Times
	- On the Increase of Madhouses
	- Observations on Toads being quite harmless
	- Plus 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, Obituaries, Bills of Mortality, lists of Bankrupts and Promotions; and much, much more.