The Cornhill Magazine. First 3 Volumes, Jan. 1860

Description: The first three volumes of the Cornhill Magazine published by Smith, Elder and Co., London, 1860 - 1861. The Cornhill Magazine (1860-1975) was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher Smith, Elder & Co., at 65 Cornhill, London. The magazine included a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serializations of new novels. Each volume includes six months of magazines. Red-cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and extensive blind-stamped decorations on both panels and spine. Yellow end papers. All have been professionally repaired as to spines and inside front and back gutters. All three volumes have partial-page illustrations and diagrams. Spines are heavily sunned. Board edges are scuffed, fore-edge corners are rubbed through. All external page edges are age-darkened and with faint foxing. Internal text pages are stiff and age-toned but clean for the most part, some foxing in the margins, mostly around pages with illustrations, a few smudges and stains but very legible. (1) Vol I includes Jan. - June, 1860. Board panels are the brightest. 12 b&w full-page illustrations, 11 with tissue-guards, and a four-panel fold-out chart/map showing "The Tracks of the Yacht Fox Despatched by Lady Franklin under the Command of Capt. McClintock R. N., in Search of H.M. Ships Erebus & Terror." The Framley Parsonage" by Anthony Trollope is included in parts in all three volumes and concludes in Vol III. "Tithonus" by Alfred Tennyson is included in Vol I. (2) VoI II has July - Dec. 1860. 12 b&w full -page illustrations (several with mis-numbered pages in the illustration list), 11 with tissue-guards. The board panels on Vol II are more soiled and scuffed; bump open front corner at tail of spine. A bit more internal foxing and slightly heavier age-toning in the margins. (3) Vol III Jan. - June, 1861. Board panels are the darkest, either from sunning or handling. Foxing is heavier on the pages closest to the front and rear. Several dog-eared pages. This volume is a bit internally grubbier than the other two. Nine full-page b&w illustrations, tissue-guard missing on several. Three, 3-panel fold-outs of "Bird's Eye View of Society." (1) "At Home. Small and Early," a crowded room serving refreshments; (2) " A Juvenile Party," crowded room of frolicking children; and (3) "A Morning Party - Showing the Nobility and Gentry playing the Fashionable Game of the Period." Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. The weight of these volumes requires additional postage as shown.

Price: 150 USD

Location: Excelsior, Minnesota

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