The satchel. A miscellany of entertaining reading.
Edinburgh.
E. and H. Beveridge, 6 Great Stuart Street, 1866.
First edition.
12mo.
12mo. [8], 64pp, [2]. With decorative gold and colour printed title panel tipped to larger title leaf, 11 woodcut plates (one of which folding, another present but incorrectly placed from the list of plates) and eight further in-text vignettes. Handsomely bound in later tan morocco, lettered in gilt to spine, marbled boards, T.E.G., marbled endpapers. The Ricky Jay copy, with the 'Ricky Jay Collection' book plate loosely inserted.
A rare collected edition of the complete run of issues of the magazine for the recreation of the pupils of the Edinburgh Institution, better known as Stewart's Melville College, a private school first opened as Daniel Stewart's Hospital in 1848.
Aptly entitled given the magazine's origin, the varied and crudely illustrated contents are tied together only by an intention to thrill and captivate their juvenile audience. From charades, tales of derring-do in then contemporary French intervention in Mexico ('Independencia' is narrated by Douglas Courtenay, 'Impelled by a natural love of adventure, and a John Bull-like hatred of the French' to involve himself in the conflict), verse such as 'Sir Godfrey at Antioch', to tales of travel at 'Low Latitudes' on an Indiaman and an explanation of a method of 'Photography. (Printing from the negative'. Perhaps most notably given the volume's more recent ownership are the four sections on 'Magic', featuring 11 tricks (albeit some of which might be better described as chemical reactions), including 'To take a shilling out a handkerchief', along with 'advice to the amateur' such as never to repeat any trick, and to practise before you perform.
OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just two locations in the British Isles (NLS and Oxford), and a further four worldwide (Australian National University, Brigham Young, NUY, and Yale)
£ 750.00
Antiquates Ref: 33421
Aptly entitled given the magazine's origin, the varied and crudely illustrated contents are tied together only by an intention to thrill and captivate their juvenile audience. From charades, tales of derring-do in then contemporary French intervention in Mexico ('Independencia' is narrated by Douglas Courtenay, 'Impelled by a natural love of adventure, and a John Bull-like hatred of the French' to involve himself in the conflict), verse such as 'Sir Godfrey at Antioch', to tales of travel at 'Low Latitudes' on an Indiaman and an explanation of a method of 'Photography. (Printing from the negative'. Perhaps most notably given the volume's more recent ownership are the four sections on 'Magic', featuring 11 tricks (albeit some of which might be better described as chemical reactions), including 'To take a shilling out a handkerchief', along with 'advice to the amateur' such as never to repeat any trick, and to practise before you perform.
OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just two locations in the British Isles (NLS and Oxford), and a further four worldwide (Australian National University, Brigham Young, NUY, and Yale)
