Douglas Jerrold Shilling Magazine Vol 1 1845, Punch Office, Hargrave Provenance
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Douglas Jerrold Shilling Magazine Vol 1 1845, Punch Office, Hargrave Provenance. ABOUT DOUGLAS JERROLD. Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) was among the most celebrated English writers of his generation. A founding contributor to. 572 pages, illustrated. The Shilling Magazine represented his ambition to build a serious literary platform independent of. SUMMARY: a complete bound Volume I of a rare and historically significant Victorian literary periodical, published at the Punch Office in 1845, with dual provenance including a bookplate and a penciled ownership inscription that may connect this copy to one of America's most beloved wartime writers. Condition is honestly Acceptable ; content, rarity, and provenance are exceptional. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE, Volume I January to June 1845, complete bound volume. Published at the Punch Office, 92 Fleet Street, London. Sold by all booksellers. 572 pages, illustrated. Fiction, poetry, articles, reviews, and satire DESCRIPTION : a bound first volume of one of Victorian Lond’s most important literary magazines, published directly out of the Punch Office at 92 Fleet Street, with a remarkable and tantalizing mid-20th century provenance inscription. BOOKPLATE: The volume carries a bookplate from a former owner, Edward S. March — adding a documented layer of collecting history. PENCILED INSCRIPTION: Inside the front cover, written in a clear mid-century cursive hand, is the name "Marion Hargrove"with the date "January 13, 1943." Whether this is the Marion Hargrove whose wartime memoir See Here, Private Hargrove (1942) made him one of America's most celebrated and widely-read authors, selling 410,000 hardcover copies and 2.2 million paperbacks and being adapted into a 1944 Hollywood film, is unconfirmed but genuinely tantalizing. The date is January 1943, precisely the moment that book was at the height of its fame, and a young literary humorist acquiring a bound volume of Victorian comic and literary journalism is entirely in character. Buyers are encouraged to research and draw their own conclusions. CONDITION: this is an ACCEPTABLE copy and is priced accordingly. Spine is chipped, torn and partially missing. Boards are separated from book. Pages are clean throughout, no tears, no marks beyond ownership inscriptions, some spotting to a few pages. Original marbled boards. ABOUT THE MAGAZINE: Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine was a monthly literary journal published from January 1845 to June 1848, launched at the height of the mid-Victorian boom in affordable periodical publishing. Priced at one shilling and edited by Douglas William Jerrold himself, it offered a rich mix of fiction, poetry, cultural criticism, and satire to a broad middle-class readership. ABOUT DOUGLAS JERROLD. Douglas William Jerrold (1803–1857) was among the most celebrated English writers of his generation. A dramatist, journalist, editor, and wit. A founding contributor to Punch from 1841, his Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lecturesbecame one of the defining satirical works of the Victorian era. The Shilling Magazine represented his ambition to build a serious literary platform independent of Punch's satirical focus. Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter
