Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - ILLUSTRATED WITH 15 ENGRAVED PLATES, AND WITH 'THE ENGLISH HERMIT' - A TALE IN THE VEIN OF ROBINSON CRUSOE -THE NOVELIST'S MAGAZINE (a periodical containing novels, complete and in serialised form, founded by bookseller James Harrison in 1779).The Novelist's Magazine. Vol. XXI.(London): Printed for Harrison & Co., 1786. First edition in this collected form]. vii, [1], 9-268; xiii, [1], 15-103; 83; 35; 109 pp. 5 novels and novellas. Illustrated with 15 full-page engraved plates, inserted outside of the pagination. Tree calf, with gilt to spine. Size: 8vo (21cm x 13.5cm).Very Good to Good only. Binding with some wear, with chipping to head and foor of spine, rubbing to corners and a split to leather along the front hinge, but still relatively solid and boards attached. A bump with creasing to top outer corner to approx. one-third of the leaves. Front blank endpaper working loose but still attached at top edge. Light age-toning to pages, some offsetting from some plates to facing text pages, and foxing to a relatively small number of pages. Plates wuite bright on the whole, a few with a little age-toning and light foxing, mainly to margins. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.This particular volume of The Novelist's Magazine contains: Peruvian tales, translated by Samuel Humphreys; The adventures of Gaudentio Di Lucca; The history and adventures of an atom, by Dr. Smollett; The Sincere Huron, by Voltaire, translated by Francis Ashmore; The English hermit... lately discovered on an uninhabited island in the South-Sea, [by Peter Longueville].⁂ See 'James Harrison, The Novelist's Magazine, and the Early Canonizing of the English Novel' by Richard C. Taylor, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 33, No. 3, Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Summer, 1993), pp. 629-643, published by Rice University. key words:
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Literature, Poetry & Criticism
Publisher: Printed for Harrison and Co.
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1786
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Fiction Subject: Novels
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: Europe
Author: Dr. Smollett, Philip Quarll
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
