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1891 Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
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Description
First Edition, Leather Binding, Rebound
Three continuous volumes from the periodical, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers. Comprising all issues from January to December 1891. The periodical began publication in 1860 wanting to appeal to a solid, literate middle-class with with interesting and entertaining topics. Initially edited by George Augustus Sala, while Arthur Ransome was the final editor before it folded.
A literary magazine, publishing stories by notorious authors such as Jane Austen, Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, Arthur Conan Doyle, and numerous others.
In 1868, the Bentley's Magazine was merged to it.
The present volumes comprise contributions by W E Norris, Lynn Linton, Florence Warden, H W Chisholm, and W R Wakes, and others. With stories, poems, critical essays, reviews, and more.
Condition
In a half calf binding over cloth covered boards. Externally sound with some shelf wear and rubbing to the spine and extremities, a minor scuffing to the leather. The boards are slightly sunned, particularly the front board of volume 92, of which the front board has faded. With Maggie Thornborrow's bookplate to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound, With some spotting to the fore edge, affecting the occasional leaf, particularly to the first and last few. Otherwise, the pages are generally bright and clean throughout.
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