Graham's Magazine of Literature and Art 1850
1850. Illustrated with forty-two black and white engravings and eight hand-colored fashion engravings. Full twelve months of 1850 bound together in a thick 8vo. volume 6-1/2" x 10-1/4". Glossy marbled endpapers. At the end of June is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-sixth Volume, Jan. 1850 to June, 1850 and then the hand-colored engraved title page for July. At the end of December is the Table of Contents of the Thirty-seventh Volume, June 1850 through January, 1851 (although January 1851 is not included). At the very back of the book is the title page for August 1850 (weird place for it!) No title pages for any of the other months is included. Light scattered foxing. Otherwise very good. Binding is tight. Item #441
Leafing through this book set me to wondering what the workday of a typesetter using this tiny 6 pt. type was like. He must have gone home exhausted. Or maybe he got involved in the story as he set his composing stick. And then how much squinting did the reader have to do? How could you read it by candlelight or kerosene lamplight? Whew!
Price: $250.00