THE LONDON MAGAZINE: VOLUME 16: February 1906-August 1906
Original Bound Volume
1906
First Thus
The Amalgamated Press, Ltd. [London]
Item Number: 214584
$75.00
Description
A virtually mint copy, as issued, without dust jacket. Includes an essay by Joseph Conrad, “London’s River.”
The London Magazine was founded in 1732. In September 1821, it published the first two installments of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Charles Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Hazlitt, John Keats and Thomas Carlyle were contributors. Publication ceased in 1829. The magazine restarted in 1898 under the ownership of the Harmsworth brothers, creators of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror. H. G. Wells published his first short story for the magazine and Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and P. G. Wodehouse were contributors.