Zadkiel The Horoscope 1841

2021-03-27 Philip 0

Full title:

  • 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 Tao Sze, &c. (1841)

Publication credits:

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

Holdings:

  • 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:

  • 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] Pseud. of Morrison, Richard

About this Book Scan

Carefully reproduced in full colour from our original printing of a bound compendium of the original magazine issues, as published in the 1840s.

Following a six-year hiatus, Commander Richard Morrison (Zadkiel) relaunched his magazine The Horoscope as a monthly in 1841. It ran for five months thus before attempting to revert to weekly status and lasting only four weeks in that form. All nine issues from the 1841 run are reproduced here.