The Repository of Modern Literature. Vol. 1.

Published by J. Robins & Co. [1823], London, 1823

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Rebound by amateur binder. Moderate foxing, quite heavy to the plates. Engraved title trimmed slightly without loss of printed area. Some small 1/4" chips and dampstains to margins of frontispiece. ; Uncommon. 560 pages + engraved title + plates. Rebound by amateur binder in half-leather binding. Marbled boards. Later endpapers. Page dimensions: 217 x 131mm. The "List of Embellishments" lists 48 illustrations, which are all present. These are a mix of engraved plates and in-text woodcut illustrations. The plate called for facing page 533 has been bound in as the frontispiece. A compendium of extracts on literature, travel, and biography, with some editorial comment. Pages 412-420 include extracts from John Franklin's "A Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea". "We never remember to have read a narrative more full of suffering and privation than that of Captain Franklin; and, at the same time, one which places the character of ther persons exposed to them in so respectable a light [. . .] The influence of religion in the human mind is here displayed in a most striking manner, and without any of that cant which sometimes makes it disgusting, and oftener doubtful" - page 420. Other contents briefly covered includes: Bruce's Account of Hyenas in Abyssinia; Cashmeer, Shawl Manufactory at; Dwight, Dr. on Fashionable Education in America; Elephant Hunting at the Cape of Good Hope; Female Heroism; Gymnosophists, or Naked Philosophers; Indian Wit and Gratitude; Pilgrimage of Mahometans to the Burial-place of Moses; Plum-pudding at Paris; Shakspeare, observations on his Richard III; Vaccination, discovery of; Witchcraft, the power of. Illustrations include: The African Wild Boar in pursuit of a Hottentot; A Buffalo attacking Professor Thunberg and Party; Whale-Fishing near the Cape of Good Hope; The Skunk, a pestiferous animal. Botoeudo Indian Family; The Hyena, and Method of Catching It. Seller Inventory # 17172

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Repository of Modern Literature. Vol. 1.

Publisher: J. Robins & Co. [1823], London

Publication Date: 1823

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued

Edition: First Edition.