1790 Walker's Hibernian Magazine or Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge. January-June 1890.

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Rebound, Very Scarce

This volume contains all January to June 1790 issues of this prominent monthly periodical, which has been termed the 'pinnacle of eighteenth-century Irish literary magazines'.

Illustrated with a general frontispiece and title page, and with a further ten engraved plates and eleven folding plates, many of which are double sided. These plates feature thirty-three images in total. Collated, complete.

Including numerous folding plates of musical notes.

Rebound, with endpapers renewed.

Stories and articles in this volume include 'Leocadia, A Spanish History', 'Letters Respecting Barbary', 'Theogenes and Charides: An Historical Romance', and 'Observations on the Docility of Animals'.