1818 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW 1818 VOL XIX ILLINOIS ENDYMION KEATS EGYPT SMALLPOX^

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled THE QUARTERLY REVIEW APRIL & DECEMBER 1818 VOL XIX published by John Murray, London, in 1818. First edition. Although the title page states that this volume is for the issues for April and December, the issues included are for April and July. This volume includes reviews on Notes on a Journey in America from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois by Morris BirbeckA Sketch of the Military and Political Power of Russia in the Year 1817Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Holy Land, Mount Libanon, and Cyprus in the Year 1814 by Henry Light"Endymion" A Poetic Romance by John KeatsGreenland, the adjacent Seas, and the North-West Passage to the Pacific Ocean by Bernard O'Reilly"Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto IV by Lord ByronMemoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey ed by Robert WalpoleIceland, or the Journal of a Residence in that Island during the Years 1814 and 1815 by Ebenezer HendersonThe History of Small Pox by James Moore and Observations relating to some of the Antiquities of Egypt from papers of Davison published in Walpole's Memoirs, including a full-page b/w Map.The Quarterly Review was a literary and political periodical founded in march 1809 by London publishing house John Murry. It ceased publication in 1967. Initially, the Quarterly was set up primarily to counter the influence on public opinion of the "Edinburgh Review". Early contributors included Secretaries of the Admiralty John Wilson Croker and Sir John Barrow, Poet Laureate Robert Southey, poet-novelist Sir Walter Scott, and others. The periodical published reviews of new works, which were often highly politicized and on occasion dismissive. Half bound tan leather on marbled hardboards. Minor wear to the boards. Burgundy title block and number block with gilt lettering and gilt decoration on the spine. Bookplate of Edward Parker of Browsholme in the County of York on the front endpaper. Light foxing/browning on some pages. All pages are firm and the book is in very good condition. 584 pages. 21.5 x 13.5 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.

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