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Title: The Original
Description: London: Henry Renshaw, 1836. Third Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's half leather over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by gilt borders, gilt lettering in one compartment, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt borders on covers. This is a reprint in one volume of the complete collection of weekly issues of The Original (Nos.1-29), from Wednesday, May 20, 1835 to Wednesday, December 2, 1835. [Wiener 320][Goldsmiths 29369]. The Original was a lively, unillustrated weekly 16-page miscellany (though its first issue comprised 12 pages and its last just four), it ran from May 20, 1835 to December 2, 1835 for 29 numbers, coming out every Wednesday. The Original was directed mainly towards the male upper middle classes “aloof from sect and party," concerned, as its “Preliminary Address” states, with “whatever is most interesting and important in Religion and Politics, in Morals and Manners, and in our Habits and Customs”, leavened with anecdotes and autobiography, in an attempt to raise “the national tone in whatever concerns us socially or individually”. It was written entirely by Thomas Walker, the son of a Manchester manufacturer and Whig reformer. Walker was born in 1784, gained his B.A. and M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1808 and 1811 respectively, and was called to the bar in 1812. In 1829, he became a police magistrate in Lambeth court. Six years later, he began The Original for, he claimed, two reasons. Firstly, it would provide “a constant and interesting stimulus to my faculties of observation and reflection” and secondly, it would provide for the reader “an alternative diet of sound and comfortable doctrines blended with innoxious amusement.”. Covers mildly worn, very light foxing throughout, unmarked (aside from pencilled bibliographic notes on ffep), tight, and square. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. iv, 444 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Price: US$ 300.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
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