Lemoine Conjuror’s Magazine Volume 2 1792-1793

2021-03-28 Philip 0

Full title:

  • The Conjuror’s Magazine, or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror

Editor: [Lemoine, Henry] (all issues)

Publication credits:

  • Printed for W. Locke, No. 12 Red Lion St., London; and sold by all Booksellers and Newscarriers in Town and Country

Holdings:

  • [Vol. II No. 1] August, 1792. [Frontis. (“Bust of Homer”)] + [2] + [plate (“George III”)] + [pp. 4-32]
  • [Vol. 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]
  • [Vol. II No. 3] October, 1792. [Frontis. (“The Sneering Contempt of Envy”)] + [2] + [pp. 67-104]
  • [Vol. II No. 4] November, 1792. [Frontis. (“Goodness No. 1 – Atrociousness – Goodness No. 2”)] + [2] + [pp. 99-120[1]] + [pp. 129-144]
  • [Vol. II No. 5] December, 1792. [2] + [pp. 147-184]
  • [Vol. 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]
  • [Vol. II No. 7] February, 1793. [2] + [pp. 227-264]
  • [Vol. II No. 8] March, 1793. [Frontis. (“M. Dumourier”)] + [2] + [pp. 267-312]
  • [Vol. II No. 9] April, 1793. [Frontis. (“Facility of Apprehension and Exquisite Taste”)] + [2] + [pp. 315-352]
  • [Vol. II No. 10] May, 1793. [Frontis. (“Raynal”)] + [2] + [1] + [p. 536] + [pp. 357-365] + [p. 166 (2)] + [pp. 367-410]
  • [Vol. 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][2] + [pp. 457-472]
  • [Vol. 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:

  • Old quarter-leather binding (spine leather scuffed) with paper-covered boards (heavily worn at outer corners and edges, and scuffed)
  • There is no index to this copy of Vol. II
  • Lacks 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 Vol. II indicates the presence of an overall volume title page, absent from this copy

[1] 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

[2] 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

About this Book Scan

Carefully scanned in full colour from our original printing.

Henry Lemoine launched The Conjuror’s Magazine as a substantial monthly forum for the discussion of occult thought and legerdemain in 1791. It ran for two years. The present scan consists of the second year.

Please note that our source copy lacks two adjacent text leaves from the final issue, that of July 1793. These have been replaced in modern typing in the scan file. This defect is reflected in the modest asking price for the otherwise complete scan of this rare and extensive volume.