The Conjuror’s Magazine

Conjuror’s Magazine, The

Full title:

• The Conjuror’s Magazine, or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror (Aug. 1792 – Oct. 1792; Jan. – Feb. 1793)
• The Conjuror’s Magazine (Nov. – Dec. 1792; Mar. – Jul. 1793)

Editor: [Lemoine, Henry] (all issues)

Publication credits:

• Printed for W. Locke, No. 12 Red Lion St., Holborn, London; and sold by all Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country (Aug. 1791; Nov. 1791 – Jul. 1792)
• Printed by and for W. Locke, No. 12, Red Lion Street, Holborn: by whom Letters (Post-paid) will be received (Sep. 1791)
• Printed for W. Locke, No. 12 Red Lion St., London; and sold by all Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country

Holdings:

• [Volume I No. 1] August, 1791. (Title page leaf marginally chipped. Heavy chip lost from upper outer margin of leaf comprising pp. 15-16, with losses to text of an article about deception using cards.) [2] + [pp. 11-40]
• [Volume I No. 2] September, 1791. [Frontis. (“Satan”)] + [2] + [pp. [43-72]
• [Volume I No. 3] October, 1791. [Frontis. (“An Aged Man Standing on the Brink of the Grave”)] + [2] + [pp. 75-104]
• [Volume I No. 4] November, 1791. [Frontis. (“Attention mixed with Astonishment”)] + [2] + [pp. 107-136]
• [Volume I No. 5] December, 1791. [2] + [pp. 139-168]
• [Volume I No. 6] February^[1], 1792. [Frontis. (“The Magician Balaam Blessing the Children of Israel whom he intended to Curse”)] + [2] + [pp. 171-184] + [pp. 187-202]
• [Volume I No. 7] February, 1792. (Defective: leaf comprising pp. 217 to 218 has been almost entirely torn out.) [2] + [pp. 205-216] + [pp. 219-233] + [p. 334^[2]]
• [Volume I No. 8] March, 1792. (Heavy central chipping, with loss, and tearing to leaf comprising pp. 345-6.) [2] + [pp. 337-341] + [plate (“Cain”)] + [pp. 343-355] + [p. 350 (2)] + [p. 557] + [pp. 358-366]
• [Volume I No. 9] April. 1792. [Frontis. (“Frederick II King of Prussia”)] + [2] + [pp. 369-374] + [plate (“Attention, desire, hope, reflecting Astronishment”)] + [pp. 375-382] + [plate (“A Numerous Group of Human Figures in Contrast”) + [pp. 383-398]
• [Volume I No. 10] May, 1792. [Frontis. (“The Last Supper”) ]+ [2] + [pp. 401-430]
• [Volume I No. 11] June, 1792. [Frontis. (“Gentleness and Benignity”)] + [2] + [pp. 433-462]
• [Volume I No. 12] July, 1792. [Frontis. (“Henry Fuseli”)] + [2] + [pp. 465-494]
• [Volume II No. 1] August, 1792. (Appears to lack p. 3 only.) [Frontis. (“Bust of Homer”)] + [2] + [plate (“George III”)] + [pp. 4-32]
• [Volume II No. 2] September, 1792. [3] + [pp. 36-40] + [plate (“Caricature of Lord Anson”)] + [pp. 41-8] + [plate (“Lord Anson”)] + [pp. 49-56] + [plate (“A Groupe of Brutes”)] + [pp. 57-64]
• [Volume II No. 3] October, 1792. [Frontis. (“The Sneering Contempt of Envy”)] + [2] + [pp. 67-104]
• [Volume II No. 4] November, 1792. [Frontis. (“Goodness No. 1 – Atrociousness – Goodness No. 2”)] + [2] + [pp. 99-120^[3]] + [pp. 129-144]
• [Volume II No. 5] December, 1792. [2] + [pp. 147-184]
• [Volume II No. 6] January, 1793. [Frontis. (“Catherine II Empress of Russia”) (partly ink-stained)] + [2] + [pp. 187-192] + [plate (“Rechab with the Head of Ishbosheth”)] + [pp. 193-200] + [plate (“Profiles from Fancy”)] + [pp. 201-208] + [plate (“A Table of the Essential Dignities of the Planets”)] + [pp. 209-216] + [plate (“Three Heads after Raphael”)] + [pp. 217-224]
• [Volume II No. 7] February, 1793. [2] + [pp. 227-264]
• [Volume II No. 8] March, 1793. [Frontis. (“M. Dumourier”)] + [2] + [pp. 267-312]
• [Volume II No. 9] April, 1793. [Frontis. (“Facility of Apprehension and Exquisite Taste”)] + [2] + [pp. 315-352]
• [Volume II No. 10] May, 1793. [Frontis. (“Raynal”)] + [2] + [1] + [p. 536] + [pp. 357-365] + [p. 166 (2)] + [pp. 367-410]
• [Volume II No. 11] June, 1793. [Frontis. (“Christ”)] + [2] + [pp. 413-8] + [plate (“M. Égalité”)] + [pp. 419-426] + [plate (“Elevated medium and sensual minds”)] + [pp. 427-450]^[4] + [pp. 457-472]
• [Volume II No. 12] July, 1793. (Defective: lacks pp. 515-518.) [Frontis. (“St. John”)] + [2] + [pp. 475-80] + [plate (“Christ Walking on the Sea”)] + [pp. 481-8] + [plate (“Head after Raphael”)] + [pp. 489-496] + [plate (“Abel the first victim sacrificed to envy”)] + [pp. 497-514] + [pp. 519-20]

Binding format and presentation notes:

• Volume I in old quarter-leather binding (front board missing) with paper-covered rear board (heavily worn at corners and edges, and scuffed).
• Volume II in matching old quarter-leather binding (sine leather scuffed) with paper-covered boards (heavily worn at outer croners and edges, and scuffed)
• Contents of Volume I followed by an unpaginated 4-page volume index. There is no index to this copy of Volume II
• Both vols. lack the advertised Lavater’s essays that were supplied with the original subscription issue of the magazine but not typically included in the bound volumes (and notably not integrated into the pagination scheme for the magazine either)
• Many of the plates indicated in the tables of contents for the individual issues are also missing, in common with most other bound vols.. For reasons of clarity, the exact identities of those that are present in this set are shown in the individual issue pagination details above
• An online library scan of Volume II indicates the presence of an overall volume title page, absent from this copy

 

[1] A note to the title page of the following issue indicates that this was printed thus ‘by mistake’, which is to say that it was really the issue for January, 1792

[2] The sudden leap in pagination of 100 pages within this issue is unexplained; but the error is then carried forward for the rest of the volume

[3] Pagination is continuous from p. 120 to p. 129. The skipping of eight nominal pages was in apparent belated compensation for the backward movement by eight at the start of this issue

[4] There is no evidence in the contents page of any missing pages between p. 450 and the following p. 457, so this appears to be another pagination error