Author: William Makepeace Thackeray [ed.]
Title: The Cornhill Magazine
Description: London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1860-64. First edition. Leather. Consecutive first ten volumes of the popular literary magazine edited by William Makepeace Thackeray in striking uniform signed bindings. Volumes I to X of The Cornhill Magazine, monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal. Bound in uniform calf signed Nutt. Complete with half titles. First editions. Featuring illustrations both in text and full page, some folding. Edited by popular author William Makepeace Thackeray. Under his editorial guidance the paper's large circulation peaked around 110,00. In 1871, the editing was taken over by Leslie Stephens.The first issue appeared in 1860, with a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new novels. This selection comprises among other contributions, numbers of Thackeray's Roundabout Papers and the first serialisation of Anthony Trollope's 'The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson,' including all twenty four chapters between vols. IV and V. With the first appearance of the popular historical novel of Romola by George Eliot, from chapter I in vol. VI through to the epilogue in vol. VIII.The present group is comprised of the following volumes:Vol I January to June, 1860. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete.Vol II July to December, 1860. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete. Vol III January to June, 1861. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete. Vol IV July to December, 1861. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete.Vol V January to June, 1862. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete. Vol VI July to December, 1862. With twenty-four full page plates. Collated, complete.Vol VII January to June, 1863. With twenty-one full page plates. Collated, complete. Vol VIII July to December, 1863. With fourteen full page plates. Collated, complete. Vol IX January to June, 1864. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete. Vol X July to December, 1864. With twelve full page plates. Collated, complete. In uniform half calf bindings over cloth covered boards, five raised bands, titles in gilt to morocco spine labels, new plain endpapers. Externally very smart with light bumping and occasional minor chipping to head and tail of spine, boards only lightly marked, occasional minor rubbing to joints. Previous ownership neat ink inscription to recto front blank leaf, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Light odd minor spotting to occasional leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Various. Very Good Indeed .

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