[Rarebooks] fa: 1795 Gentleman's Magazine: FRENCH REVOLUTION, JAMES BOSWELL, &c. + 33 PLATES

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA

The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle. For the Year MDCCXCV [1795]. Volume LXV [65]. Part the First [and] Part the Second. London: Printed by John Nichols and sold by Eliz. Newberry, 1795. 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; [4], 536, [14] p.; [2], [537]-1115, [19] p.; with 33 copper-engraved plates, one of which is folding.

The PLATES (with accompanying text) include: The Public Entry of the Turkish Embassador[sic] into London, January, 1795, with a View of Buckingham House; Elevation of the Almshouses founded by Campe at Friarn Barnet; Views of: the Church at Brampton, the Church of Staindrop in Durham, the Bridge at Dumfries, the Ruins of Boyle Abbey, Amberley Castle, the great Barn at Calcot, Putley Cross, Matlock Torr, the Church and Rectory at Eckington, Drumoland Castle, the Old and New Churches at Paddington; with many other views, portraits, coins, inscriptions, antiquities, curiosities, etc..

Other notable, curious and/or characteristic features include:
	- Contemporary coverage of the ongoing French Revolution: monthly Proceedings of the National Convention; Proceedings against Danton and others; Observations on the Moderation of the present Rulers; Princess Marie Antoinette's Title to Navarre; the Republic acknowledged by the Ottoman Porte; the new Constitution depicted; etc.
	- Monthly Intelligence from America and the West Indies: Anecdotes of Gen. Washington and Kosciusko; Authentic Correspondence [between] General Washington and General Gage; Enquiry after Gen. Washington's Commission; Treaty with Great Britain signed by Washington; Letter from Charles Thomson, Secretary of Congress during the American Revolution, denying that orders were issued to seize Captain Cook's ship; Advices from Barbadoes; etc.
	- An Obituary of James Boswell, as well as: Biographical Anecdotes of the late Mr. Boswell; Character of Mr. Boswell; Memoirs of James Boswell, Esq.; Dr. Parr's Appeal against James Boswell; etc.
	- Ravages of the French at Sierra Leone
	- Letter [and a] Second Letter from the Author of The Annual Register [Edmund Burke]
	- The Jews vindicated against their Calumniators [by Isaac D'Israeli]
	- Mr. [Edmond] Malone's proposed new Edition of Shakspeare
	- Correspondence relative to Dr. [Samuel] Johnson and Dr. [Joseph] Priestley
	- Translation of a Dirge Written by La Source and Sillery, while imprisoned by Robespierre in the Prison of the Luxembourg. By Miss [Helen Maria] Williams
	- A Sacred Ode on the Marriage of his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales with the Princess Caroline of Brunswick
	- [Ode] On a celebrated Prostitute
	- The Private Vices and Public Virtues of the Age contrasted
	- Some of our fashionable Follies censured
	- The Lancashire Collier Girl; a true Story
	- The Veracity of Mr. Bruce's Description of a Camel; The Natural History of the Camel explained
	- Potatoe-Water unwholesome
	- A very cheap and excellent Soup for the Poor
	- Early printed Books in the British Museum
	- Complaints re... the habit of many borrowers of books, who return them late and with marginal annotations
	- Obituaries of remarkable Persons, including: eminent potter and abolitionist Josiah Wedgwood; composer and "first chess-player" François-André Danican Philidor; Louis XVII ("in his 11th year... only son of the late King of France"); Revolutionary War general Sir Henry Clinton; writer Jean-Jacques Barthélemy; etc. etc.
	- 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.