The first five issues of 'The Saturday Magazine'.

Author: 
The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Publication details: 
7 to 28 July 1832. 'LONDON: JOHN WILLIAM PARKER, 445, (WEST) STRAND.' 'C. RICHARDS, Printer, 100, St. Martin's Lane, Charing Cross.'
£165.00
SKU: 5160

The five issues are each eight pages long and octavo. All five issues unbound, and stabbed. All good, though lightly aged and with some wear to extremities. An improving publication, produced 'Under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'. Around twenty illustrations of varying sizes, including 'View of the Temple of Jagganatha at Orissa', 'The great Salcey oak', 'Procession of the Idol Cars to the Temple of Jagganatha (or Juggernaut.)', 'View of the Great Geyser' and 'The departure of the Israelites out of Egypt'.