Volume 1 Is Complete, Original Boards, Lacking Spine, No Title Or Index Or Illustrations, And Undated, Probably 1823?; Vol Ii, As Described In A Foreword, Is Improved With A More Standard Book Arrangement And Illustrations, Bound In Half Leather, And Is Interesting For Detailed Reviews Of "Conversations Of Lord Byron", By Capt. Medwin; "Narrative Of A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia And Siberian Tartary, By Capt. John Dundas Cochrane"; "Greece In 1823 And 1824.", By Leicester Stanhope; And "Posthumous Poems Of P. Bysshe Shelley". Included Is An Unfavorable Review Of "The Last Man" By Mrs. Shelley. Vol. Ii Is A Complete But Quite Worn Copy, With The Front Board And Pages Through "V" Detached But Present. Per Wikipedia, The Literary Magnet Was Started As A Weekly Magazine In 1824 With The Full Title The Literary Magnet Of The Belles Lettres, Science, And The Fine Arts, By Co-Editors Samuel Egerton Brydges And His Son Egerton Anthony Brydges Under The Joint Pseudonym Tobias Merton (Perhaps An Anagram Of Their Names).[A] Its First Series Was Published By William Charlton Wright, And Ran Until June 1824. Egerton Anthony Brydges Seems To Have Stopped Editing The Magazine Near The Start Of Volume Two, With No Evidence Of Any Contributions From Him After The Second Issue, And His Father's Contributions Seem Only To Have Continued Until The Eighth Issue. An Unknown Editor Using The Initials "J. H. H." Effectively Took Over From Issue Nine. Towards The End Of The Second Series, After The Fiftieth Sixteen-Page Weekly Issue Of The Magazine, It Was Turned Into A Monthly Magazine. The Third Volume, Published 1825, Changed Publishers To George Wightman, And Started To Include Colour Plates. Part Way Through This Volume, The Magazine Was Divided Into Two Parts: "The Literary Magnet" And "The Monthly Journal". A Fourth Volume, Dated 1825, Completed The Magazine's First Series. The Editorship Changed At Least Once More To Another Unknown Figure Before The End Of The First Series, Though The Pen-Name Tobias Merton Was Kept Throughout This Series As The Nominal Editor, And As A Character In Its "Round Table" Columns. Alaric Alexander Watts Bought The Literary Magnet By December 1825, And Made An Unnamed "Very Clever Young Literary Friend" The Editor Of The First Volume Of Its Second Series, Which Ran From January To June 1826. This Was Published By Charles Knight, With The Full Title Changed To The Literary Magnet, Or Monthly Journal Of The Belles Lettres. Watts Became The Anonymous Editor For Volumes Two (July To December 1826), Three (January To June 1827), And Four (July To December 1827). A Final Fifth Volume Was Published And Edited By The Original Publisher William Charlton Wright Under The Title Wright's Literary Magnet. It Consisted Of Just Three Monthly Issues (January To March 1828), Which Were Described By Professor Ted Ellis As "Poorly Written".

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The Literary Magnet Of The Belles Lettres , Volume I And Volume Ii, With Detailed Reviews Of "Conversations Of Lord Byron", By Capt. Medwin; "Narrative Of A Pedestrian Journey Through Russia And Siberian Tartary, By Capt. John Dundas Cochrane"; "Greece In 1823 And 1824.", By Leicester Stanhope; And "Posthumous Poems Of P. Bysshe Shelley". Included Is An Unfavorable Review Of "The Last Man" By Mrs. Shelley.

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William Charlton Wright, London; Brussels

Publication Date

1824

Language

English

Binding

Boards; Half Leather

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Full page Engravings

Edition

First Edition Thus

Condition

Fair

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