Author: Kimber, Edward (Editor).
Title: THE LONDON MAGAZINE Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer. Vol. XXXI For the Year 1762.
Description: Printed for R[ichard] Baldwin at the Rose in Pater Noster Row, 1762. 1st Ed. [8], 715, [7] only lacking last few leaves of Index. Folding map of South America, engraved port., folding Kitchin map of Corsica, folding Whaling plate, Kitchin map of Cartagena, Kitchin map of Ferrol and Groyne, plan of Port Royal in Martinico (crease split with loss), folding plate at pp.241 with substantial loss, plan of Island of Cuba, 1 plate of a ‘The Queen’s Female Zebra’, plan of La Vera Cruz of St. Juan de Ulua, folding Kitchin map of New Found Land, folding section of Draw Bridge, folding plan in Granada, [only lacking some plates?]. C3 shaved along fore-edge with sl. loss to text, browned, some folding images clumsily re-folded and chipped, contemporary worn leather backed marbled boards, loss to head of spine and boards and corners. ¶ With undoubtedly one of the earliest depictions of a Zebra in the UK of the very first zebra to arrive in England as wedding present Queen Charlotte! Edited 1747-1755 by Isaac Kimber, 1755-1769 by Edward Kimber. Imprint varies slightly; Astley's name is omitted in some later issues [as in our copy]. Title pages have vignette showing St. Paul's, London Bridge, and the Thames from the South Bank; Title pages include content information. Text begins with factotum initial.

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