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The Cornhill Magazine: Volumes 1-29 34-114 125-129 1860-1924; and 98 single issues in printed wrappers 1924-1933

1933 · 371693 — London: Smith Elder and Co.; John Murray 1933. Hardcover. Good. Magazine. 105 bound volumes and 98 individual issues in wrappers. Octavos. A long run from 1860–1933 of this famous Victorian literary magazine known for debuting the works of many important English writers. The set includes volumes 1-29 January 1860-June 1874 34-114 July 1876-December 1916 and volumes 125-129 January 1922-June 1924 bound in contemporary publisher's cloth or full linen boards. Also included are 98 monthly issues numbers 337-450 in the original printed wrappers July 1924-December 1933 lacking July 1930 and May November and December 1931. Among the many complete works included in this long run are the first appearances of Framley Parsonage The Claverings and two other novels by Trollope as well as Thackeray's The Adventures of Philip and his complete column: "Roundabout Papers." Other works from the 1860s include Romola by George Eliot Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell Armadale by Wilkie Collins Unto This Last by John Ruskin Culture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold and Tennyson's "Tithonus." Works from the 1870s and 1880s include The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James The Pavilion on the Links and The Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson and the first 29 chapters of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement was first published anonymously by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1884 and The White Company first appeared under his name in 1891-92. The Lagoon by Joseph Conrad appeared in 1897. Cornhill maintained its high reputation up through the 1930s. Works from the early 20th Century include poems and prose pieces by Robert Bridges Thomas Hardy W.B. Yeats Ford Madox Ford and Katherine Tynan. The magazine also featured illustrations by George du Maurier Frederic Leighton Edwin Landseer John Everett Millais and other leading artists. Most were engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel and include numerous full-page and folding plates. Most volumes from 1860 to 1901 are bound in contemporary publisher's cloth with some rebound in full cloth volumes from 1902 to 1924 are rebound in full cloth most with the original wrappers included and single monthly issues from the 1920s and early 1930s are in the original printed wrappers. Ex-library set with bookplates most 19th Century volumes with a small embossed stamp on the title pages and a perforated stamp on the plates. The earliest volumes are chipped at the spines and edges a few with split spines and detached boards else overall a good set of bound volumes; the single issues in wraps are unmarked and very good or better. A very nice assemblage of notable 19th Century literature and illustrations. Smith, Elder and Co.; John Murray hardcover