Between the Covers

Hardcover. One volume. Quarto (9 ½” x 13 ½”). pp. 1-288: January 1861 – December 1866 (New Series, Nos. 1-72). A consecutive run of 72 monthly issues, custom bound for the owner, Sarah A. Hickin, in dark blue cloth over boards, gilt spine, with a manuscript note in ink on the front pastedown. One monthly issue (May 1865, pp. 209-12) has been neatly cut along the gutter (present and laid in its proper place), the September 1865 issue has some staining and a small vignette illustration partially cut round (still present), else very good overall with a few small early tape repairs. The *Band of Hope Review* was a lavishly illustrated "improving" magazine for the children of the poor and working classes, founded and edited by the Methodist social reformer Thomas Bywater Smithies. A scarce volume of 72 complete issues dating from the magazine’s golden period, featuring contemporary articles on slavery and several issues with outstanding front-page wood engravings by John Gilbert and Harrison Weir.

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