Astrologer’s Magazine and Philosophical Miscellany, The[1] (2)
Editor: Vaughan Williams, Edward
Publication credits:
- E. V. Williams, 3, Elizabeth Place, Westminster Road, London
Holdings:
- (Undated[2] compendium with continuous pagination.)
Binding format and presentation notes:
- With separate title page to [p. 229]: Vaughan Williams, Edward, Esq., Professor of Astro-Medical Botany and the Siderial Art; Editor of the “Astrologer’s Magazine,” for 1857-8; and the “Celestial Messenger Almanack” – Successor to T. Oxley, Esq[.] ‘A Short Treatise for the Use of the Zodiacal Belt Planispheres: Or, New Calculating Instruments; Being a Conplete Key to the Performing of Every Problem in Genethliacal Astrology, By Measurement Only, Instead of the Hitherto Abstruse Mathematical Calculations’ London, 1858. Old half-leather Volume, rebacked with modern leather, with paper-covered boards (scuffed and edgeworn). [2] + [pp. 3-32] + [single-sided illustration) + [pp. 35-116] + [p. 11 (2)] + [pp. 118-122] + [6] + [pp. 129-140] + [2] + [pp. 143-9] + [1] + [pp. 151-6] + [4] + [pp. 157-179] + [2] + [pp. 182-4] + [4] + [pp. 185-212] + [4] + [pp. 213-228] + [1 leaf] + [8] + [pp. 239-240] + [4] + [pp. 241-265] + [2] + [p. 268] + [4]
[1] No overall title page is present in this copy, but the title of the original magazine is inferred from the use of this name in the editor’s address to readers at the start of the volume.
[2] The present volume is a slightly later compilation of a periodical published erratically by the author in what can reasonably be presumed to have been a very small circulation. Most internal contents suggest 1858, though one letter printed is dated 1850. An advertisement at the back of Zadkiel’s Almanac for 1858 indicates that the magazine commenced publishing as a monthly on September 1st, 1857. It would seem probable from the available evidence that it ran only until some time in 1858 before ending, whereupon this compilation was produced for continuing sale.
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