Bentley's Miscellany

Bentley's Miscellany

Bentley's Miscellany

1 September 1838

Special Collections, University of Victoria

Special Collections, University of Victoria

• Literature--Periodicals.
• English periodicals.
• English literature--19th century--Periodicals.
• English literature.

Bentley's Miscellany is an excellent example of early Victorian periodical art published by primarily by Richard Bentley between 1837 and 1868.

University of Victoria, Special Collections, AP4 B43

Richard Bentley, London (formerly partners in Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley Publishers, 1829-1832);
American edition published by Jemima M. Lewer (subsequently Jemima M. Mason), New York.

This individual volume was purchased in 2014 by Special Collections via a private bookseller (not known) in conjunction with a donation of numerous Dickens-related items from the Victoria chapter of The Dickens Fellowship.

Peter Wilson, MA English student, University of Victoria

Paper magazine; physical dimensions 15 cm x 25 cm; single volume issue, Vol. XXI. 103 pp. (seq. 209-312)

English

Text and images

Dickens’ “Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfrog Association for the Advancement of Everything.” With two (2) black-and-white engravings by George Cruickshank on the Dickens item, entitled “Automaton Police Officers and real Offenders: From the Model Exhibited Before Section B of the Mud Fog [sic?] Association” and “The Tyrant Sowster”; and one (1) unrelated engraving entitled “Sir Isaac Newton’s Courtship.” This volume also includes: “A Chapter on Gourmanderie,” by the author of “A Parisian Sabbath”; “Chorus of Bubble-buyers–Paper Money Lyrics”; “Her Majesty’s Portraits, and Queen Elizabeth’s Edict”; “A Cambridge ‘Row’ in the Year 1632”; “Day-dreams”; “The Abbot and the Black Penitent”; “Cupid and Jupiter. A Fable,” by W.B. LeGros; “Grouse Shootings”; “Walter Childe,” by Mr. Buller of Brazen Nose; “Rapp’s Epitaph”; “More Peculiarities of Uncle Sam”; “Anacreon Made Easy,” by Mr. Buller, Jun.; “An Extraordinary Profession”; “Improptu Sermonet by the Rev. Sydney Smith”; “A Night on the Enchanted Mountains,” by C.F. Hoffman, author of “A Winter in the Far West.”

20 October 2016

Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. XXI, Sept. 1, 1838, American edition.