1832 The Schoolmaster and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine (Issues 1 to 43)

The Schoolmaster and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine

Conducted by John Johnstone

Bound volume containing issues 1 to 43 (1832-1833)

Published by John Anderson, Edinburgh. First edition. The book is bound in contemporary half leather over marbled paper covered boards with gold titling on the spine. It measures approx. 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" with iv and 352 and 336 pages. Pages 177-178, being the first pages to issue 12 of volume 1, are missing. Following the missing page 178, page 179 has been mis-numbered as 172 (printing error).

John Johnstone established a printing firm in Edinburgh in the 1790s, gradually expanding into book-binding, book-selling, and publishing. In 1815 he married Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781-1857), a novelist and journalist, and editor. In 1817, they founded the Inverness Courier, which they ran until 1824. Following the First Reform Bill, they founded "The Schoolmaster and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine", which made its first appearance in August of 1832. Its aim was to facilitate "cheap and universal diffusion of really useful information of every kind"

We believe that the publication extended to 48 issues from August 4th 1832 up to June 29th 1833, and this bound volume contains the first 43 issues, from August 4th 1832 up to May 25th 1833 (parts of volumes 1 and 2). There is a title-page and two contents pages for volume 1 (issues 1 to 22) but these are not present for the second volume (issues 23 onward).

CONDITION
A good copy. The leather binding is good with some rubbing to the spine. Endpapers good. All contents as described present. Pages good with some with sporadic foxing here and there. Overall good.

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