Cornhill Magazine, January to June 1861, Volume III

All six issues of the Cornhill Magazine published between January and June 1861, bound into a single volume.  Illustrated with full page engravings and similar smaller engravings in text, one large fold-out illustration providing a ‘bird’s eye view of society’.  Quarter bound in green leather over green cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine.  Marbled text block edges.  8vo.  Leather is worn and scuffed, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends, sunned to brown over the spine, cloth has some marks.  Marbling is dull.  Front hinge cracked and some spotting and minor soiling on endpapers.  Bookplate, of John S Palmer, on the front paste down, front free endpaper ridged, else internally neat and clean.

The Cornhill Magazine was a literary journal published between 1860 and 1975.  Its first editor was the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.  It carried a selection of literary and other articles and serialised some important literary works.  This volume contains, for instance, chapters from Anthony Trollope’s Framley Parsonage; and articles on The Civil Service as a Profession; The Emancipation of the Serfs of Russia; The Morality of Advocacy; The Study of History; Schoolmasters; The English Convict System; and many more.