The Horoscope (1)

Horoscope, The (1)^[1]

Full title:

• The Horoscope; A Weekly Miscellany of Astrology, Containing Complete Answers to Every Objection to the Science; Also, Several Highly Interesting Nativities, Accounts of Earthquakes, &c. and Numerous Fulfilled Predictions (1834)
• The Horoscope, Monthly Magazine of Science and Literature (January – May 1841, as represented on individual issue headers)
• The Horoscope, A Weekly Miscellany of Astrology, Astronomy, Phrenology, Meteorology, &c. (May 8 – May 29, 1841)
• The Horoscope: A Miscellany of Meteorology, The Celestial Science of Astrology, and Literature. Illustrated with Engravings, &c. (1841, as represented on 1843 reprint volume title page)

Editor:

• Zadkiel the Seer^[2] (1834)
• Zadkiel Tao Sze, &c. (1841)

Publication credits:

• Published by Willmer and Smith, Liverpool (1834)
• Published by William Charlton Wright, 4, Paternoster Row, Cheapside, London, 1843 (1841 issues in bound reprint form)

Holdings:

• No. 1, Saturday, May 3, 1834. [pp. 1-8]
• No. 2, Saturday, May 10, 1834. [pp. 9-16]
• No. 3, Saturday, May 17, 1834. [pp. 17-24]
• No. 4, Saturday, May 24, 1834. [pp. 25-32]
• No. 5, Saturday, May 31, 1834. [pp. 33-40]
• No. 6, Saturday, June 7, 1834. [pp. 41-8]
• No. 7, Saturday, June 14, 1834. [pp. 49-56]
• No. 8, Saturday, June 21, 1834. [pp. 57-64]
• No. 9, Saturday, June 28, 1834. [pp. 65-72]
• No. 10, Saturday, July 5, 1834. [pp. 73-80]
• No. 11, Saturday, July 12, 1834. [pp. 81-8]
• No. 12, Saturday, July 19, 1834. [pp. 89-96]
• No. 13, Saturday, July 26, 1834. [pp. 97-104]
• No. 14, Saturday, August 2, 1834. [pp. 105-112]
• No. 15, Saturday, August 9, 1834. [pp. 113-120]
• No. 16, Saturday, August 16, 1834. [pp. 121-8]
• No. 17, Saturday, August 23, 1834. [pp. 129-136]
• No. 18, Saturday, August 30, 1834. [pp. 137-144]
• No. 19, Saturday, September 6, 1834. [pp. 145-152]
• January, 1841. ii + [pp. 3-40] + [barometric plate] + [pp. 41-2]
• February, 1841. [pp. 43-80] + [barometric plate] + [pp. 81-2]
• March, 1841. [pp. 83-120] + [barometric plate] + [pp. 121-2]
• April, 1841. [pp. 123-160] + [barometric plate] + [pp. 161-2]
• May, 1841. [pp. 163-202]
• No. I Part VI, Saturday, May 8, 1841. [pp. 203-210]
• No. II, Part VI, Saturday, May 15, 1841. [pp. 211-218]
• No. III, Part VI, Saturday, May 22, 1841. [pp. 219-226]
• No. IV, Part VI, Saturday, May 29, 1841. [pp. 227-240) + [barometric plate] + [pp. 241-2]

Binding format and presentation notes:

• First three issues of 1834 printed in dual columns; the remainder in single columns
• 1834 issues bound together in old half-leather (chipped at top of spine; worn at foot of spine and down rear hinge; heavy wear to outer corners of boards) with paper-covered boards (scuffed and edgeworn). Overall volume title page credits editorship to ‘Zadkiel’ (without ‘The Seer’).
• 1841 original issues encased within old quarter-leather covers (detached; outer spine chipped away) with paper-covered boards (worn at outer corners). Bound with “Proceedings of the Meteorological Society, During the Session 1838-1839”. (Preface comprising pp. i-ii detached but present; binding split between pp. 42-3 of “The Horoscope”, and between pp. 26-7 of the “Proceedings”.)
• Separate volume with added title page backed with editor’s note ‘to his readers’ (dated 1843) consists of an altered reprint of the 1841 issues, with p. 240 amended to become the final page, the original pp. 241 and 242 missing, all the barometric plates except that from the January issue removed; and the separate weekly issue title headings excised from the May issues, although with a May 8th header remaining but changed to match the monthly issues’ subtitle style. Two pages of advertisements dated 1848 follow p. 240. This volume in old half-leather (separation down whole length of front hinge; reconnected with clear tape; heavy wear to outer corners of boards) with paper-covered boards.

 

[1] This title was published briefly during 1834 and again during 1841, but not in the intervening years. All issues published are believed to be present in this collection

[2] Pseud. of Morrison, Richard