THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE VOLUME XIV 1840
Written by Sylvanus Urban
Published by William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols And Son
in 1840
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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE VOLUME XIV 1840
Written by Sylvanus Urban.
Stock no. 1710402
1st.
1840.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Library binding. July to December 1840. iv 704 pages, b/w illustrations Includes: Genealogy of the Beauharnais family; Opening of the Crusader's tomb in Botus Fleming Church, Cornwall; Description of Ratcliffe Tower, Lancashire; Failed assassination attempt on Queen Victoria; Paintings in Rochester Cathedral; Celtic finds near Bridgwater; Atmospheric Railway at Wormholt Scrubs with expected speeds of 100 mph!; London and Blackwall Railway opened; Work commences on Laying out Trafalgar square; The Manor House of Samlesbury, Lancashire; The church of Great Yarmouth; the church of Walford, |Hertfordshire; the Martyrs memorial, Oxford; Stocks and Whipping Post at Waltham Abbey; The Judges House at Dorchester; Saxon sundial at Bishopston Church, Sussex; Relics from the wreck of the Mary Rose; Prices of Hay, Straw, Coal, Candles, Corn, Hops etc; numerous other historical events, obituaries, births, marriages and deaths; Index to names at rear. Ex-library (reference) with minimal stamps and new endpapers.
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Front cover
Contents
- MINOR CORRESPONDENCE
- AN APOLOGY FOR CATHEDRAL SERVICE
- Letters of Miss Tucker, Dean Tucker
- On Genealogies and the Origin of the Family of Beauharnais
- The Heraldry of Novelists and Artists
- Opening of the Crusader's Tombe in Botus Fleming church, Cornwall
- Controversy between the late Bp. Burgess and the Rev. S. Wix
- Autographs of Shakspere - Recovery of the Conveyance deed of 1612-13
- On the admission of the Public to the State Paper Office
- The foundation of Scott's Guy Mannering - Adventures of James Annesley
- Description of Ratcliffe Tower, Lancashire
- Anecdotes of the family of La Luzerne
- W. Dunbar the Poet - John Thomson's Man, Vowing to the Swan
- RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW - The Dove, a poem, by Richard Zouche, DCL
- REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS
- FINE ARTS
- LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE
- ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES
- HISTORICAL CHRONICLE
- OBITUARY
- CLERGY DECEASED
- Bill of Mortality - Markets - Prices of Shares - Meteorological Diary -Stocks