CORNHILL MAGAZINE (Volumes 1-47 in 46 books)

1860-83. Hardcover. Ex-library 3/4 tan leather on dark grey boards (except Volume 41, spine bound in dark green leather). Volumes 1-47 (in 46 books) covering the years 1860-83. Raised bands and attractive gilt on spine. All title plates still intact and in good shape.

Volume 4 spine 1/2 detached.
Volumes 5, 7, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 30, 36-7, 39 spine chipped.
Volumes 6, 9, 11, 21, 30-1, spine beginning to tear
Volume 8 spine torn at rear gutter and taped.
Volume 41 spine torn and taped.
Volume 10 back board detached.
Volume number gilt and visible on every volume.
A very nice set of the famous Victorian literary periodical.

This run includes poetry from Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, Matthew Arnold, George Macdonald, W.M. Thackeray, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Short pieces from Dickens and Turgenev are also included. Fiction includes Henry James's "Daisy Miller," "An International Episode," and the novel, "Washington Square." Robert Louis Stevenson published a great deal in Cornhill, and this run includes the following poems: "Forest Notes," "Walking Tours," "Virginibus Puerisque," "On Falling in Love," "An Apology for Idlers," "François Villon, Student, Poet, and Housebreaker," "Will o’ the Mill," " Crabbed Age and Youth," "Æs Triplex," "The English Admirals," "Child’s Play," "Some Aspects of Robert Burns," "Yoshida-Torajiro," "Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions," "Et Tu in Arcadia Vixisti," "Samuel Pepys," as well as 2 serials: "The Pavilion on the Links" and "The Merry Men." Thomas Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd," and "The Hand of Ethelberta" were also serialized in this run. Matthew Arnold published several articles in this run: "My Countrymen," "The Study of Celtic Literature," "Culture and its Enemies," "Anarchy and Authority," "St. Paul and Protestantism," "Puritanism and the Church of England," "Literature and Dogma," "A Persian Passion Play," and "New Rome." Run includes Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Agnes of Sorrento;" George Eliot's, "Romola;" Anthony Trollope's "The Small House at Allington," "Framely Parsonage," "The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson," and "The Claverings;" Thackeray's "The Adventures of Philip on his Way through the World," "Roundabout Papers," and "Denis Duval;" Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters;" and Wilkie Collins's "Armadale." Item #124613

Cornhill was founded by George Murray Smith in 1859, the first issue carrying the cover date of January 1860. It continued until 1975. It was a literary journal with a selection of articles on diverse subjects and serialisations of new novels. Smith hoped to gain some of the same readership enjoyed by All the Year Round, a similar magazine owned by Charles Dickens, and he employed as editor William Thackeray, Dickens' great literary rival at the time.The magazine was phenomenally successful, selling many more issues than anyone had thought likely, but within a few years circulation dropped rapidly as it failed to keep pace with changes in popular taste. It also gained a reputation for rather safe, inoffensive content in the late Victorian era.

Price: $1,000.00

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