Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 5 -- June to November, 1852
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852. Hardcover. 1 bound volume containing 6 issues, June through November 1852: viii, 864 p.: 229 illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Contemporary half morocco with marbled paper over boards. Spine divided into six compartments with gilt-tooled spine title. All page edges marbled in a circular pattern matching boards. Endpapers marbled in a combed pattern. Contents include: The Summer Tourist: Scenery of the Franconia Mountains, N.H. by William McLeod with drawings of many scenes, including the Old Man of the Mountain; Ocean Life by John S. C. Abbott; The British Museum and Zoological Gardens by Fredrika Bremer; Memoirs of the Holy Land by Jacob Abbott; Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. Abbott; part of Edward Bulwer Lytton's My Novel, or, Varieties in English Life; part of Charles Dickens' Bleak House; Drooping Buds by Charles Dickens, an account of a visit to the newly opened Hospital for Sick Children in London; The Armory at Springfield by Jacob Abbott; and women's fashion by the season. The illustrations include humorous cartoons. In Very Good- Condition: binding is rubbed but solid; endpapers are separated along hinges; scattered soiling and small stains; closed 12-cm. tear from lower edge of p. 427, without loss; lacking lower corner of p. 17, without loss of text or illustration; a few corners creased. Very Good -. Item #008793
Price: $32.00