1838 Gentleman's Magazine Jan-Dec Illustrated URBAN historical chronicle v 9 10

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1838 Gentleman's Magazine Jan-Dec Illustrated URBAN historical chronicle v 9 10Up for auction is the bound volume of:The Gentleman's Magazine. For the COMPLETE Year 1838. Volume IX & X [ 9& 10] . New Series.from January to Juneand from July to DecemberIt includes all 12 monthly issues (Jan-Dec).Published in London , by Sylvanus Urban. Printed by William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols & Son.The volume includes each individual issue's illustrated title pages and contents as well as lots of great early engraved plates. 1200+ pages of stories, history and index.Reviews, letters, Foreign Affairs & Domestic Occurrences, Births, Marriages & Deaths, etc.Retrospective Review. Review of New Publications. Fine Arts. Literary and Scientific Intelligence. Antiquarian Researches. Historical Chronicle. Obituaries. Correspondence.Properly discarded ex-library copy with the usual library markings (occasional embossed stamps throughout / library pocket in the back cover, label on volume title, spine markings). BINDING COPY, with perished leather spine. Covers coming detached. One plate detached. Badly taped marbled endpapers, old institutional bookplates, occasional taping internally in the volume (not frequent but when done, done with library spine tape). Occasional spotting/foxing, but generally bright and readable. May have occasional pencil underlining. Please note : any typos in the above listing are entirely our own. If you have specific questions about content please ask before bidding.A note on offsetting : while it is normal for there to be offsetting of the images and text to the opposite page in texts of this era (offsetting is ink transfer from one page to the other, sometimes as a result of wet ink, sometimes from later pressure applied to the binding). As the prospective buyer, you should examine the photographs provided with this listing to get a good idea of whether this is an issue for you. Because the ink content is sometimes more acidic than the paper opposite, there is often a dark brown transfer of an engraving to the opposite page - to the point that the image is seen there in reverse. Some find this pleasing. Others (particularly on maps) find text offsetting to the map distracting. John Carter in his "ABC's of Book Collecting" defines Offset as "The accidental transfer of ink from a printed page or illustration to an adjacent page. This can be caused either from the sheets having been folded, or the book bound, before the ink was properly dry, or from the book being subsequently exposed to damp..." He also notes that offsetting can be used sometimes by the bibliographical detective, since it often occurs so soon after printing.Other volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine: Over the next few months we will be listing a large run of this magazine as time allows. If you have specific years you want to be notified about please let us know and we will do our best to tell you when we offer them. YES, we will check if a specific article you care about is included in the volume being offered. NO, we will not provide a complete listing of the contents - we simply don't have the time.A note on completeness. Early magazines of this period, even those in their original published form can be missing a gathering, or a plate (or more) or have one plate or gathering (a group of pages) bound in twice with others missing. This was a result of the publishing and binding process, the fact that often the plates were produced separately from the text, and that the binders sometimes had more text than plates printed. And of course, if bound together later in life, plates and/or articles were sometimes missing. And, printers and binders made mistakes being humans, or were up too late, or had to much fun the night before.We make every effort to look for obvious gaps in the binding (where something might have been cut out) and to check for important articles we are aware of. But we can't check every page if we are to offer these at an affordable price. So if you have a specific p... read more

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