The Cornhill Magazine Volume II, July To December, 1860 -

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1860. Book. Fair (Book Condition). Hardcover. First Edition. Reader's copy. Covers detached. No spine. Occasional foxing. Text clean [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1860. First Edition. . HB, 3/4 Leather. Good to Good Plus/No Jacket. 760pp. 8 of 12 plates. Cond = spine dry w/cracks, wear to edges. Gilt spine. Size: 8vo 8-1/4 x 5-1/4

Published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1860. Volume II, July - December 1860. First edition.condition: Good.
The Cornhill magazine was a monthly Victorian magazine and library journal, named after the street address of it's publisher, Smith, Elder & Co. In the 1860s, it was edited by William Makepeace Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, and it had a large circulation, reaching approximately 110,000. This fell by 1870 to 20000 due to it's competitors growing popularity. This volume comes from it's point of high popularity, including chapters from novels such as Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope, and illustrations by preeminent artists of the time.
This volume is bound in half calf with mottled boards, gold gilt title and decorations to the spine. There is rubbing and shelf wear to the boards and binding, but the binding remains strong and smart. Inside, other than some toning and a little age spotting, as to be expected in a book of this age, the pages are clean and bright and in excellent… Read More

London: Smith Elder & Co. Very Good. 1860. Hardcover. illustrted, nicely bound in half tan leather/cloth, edges sl rubbed, cloth sl sunned, endpapers, sl spotted. Nice tight copy; Octavo .

LONDON. SMITH, ELDER AND CO. 1860. HALF LEATHER IN RED. LEATHER IS RUBBED ALL ROUND. GILT EMBOSSED TITLE ON SPINE. TIGHT BINDING BUT FEP CRACKED MANY ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE.

London. Smith, Elder and Co. 1860-1861. 1st Edition. Soft cover. thick8vo, 22cm, in 3 volumes, vi,760 & vi,760 & vi,760pp., with 35 engraved plates (3 folding), many text illustrations, tissue guards, 1 folding map, in contemporary half dark green calf and green pebbled cloth boards, gilt decorated raised bands, full gilt decorations and borders in the panels, double crushed crimson morocco labels, marbled edges, hinges reinforced near fine set in attractively bound publisher's fine bindings (s12). ~ The first 18 monthly issues of the "Cornhill Magazine" with contributions by Thomas Hood, Tennyson, Milnes, Washington Irving, Bronte, Arnold, Browning, Meredith and Trollope. Edited by Thackeray (until April, 1862), these issues contain his "Lovell the Widower", parts of "The Adventures of Philip" and "Roundabout Papers" (1-12) which many consider to be some of his best essay writing. These volumes also include the first serialized edition of Anthony Trollope's "Framley Parsonage". (Parts 1-16). Other… Read More