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The Historical Magazine

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Subseries 2.3.

Scope and Contents

Box 182 - The Historical Magazine Editor’s Notebook. Red notebook in a poor state (missing areas to the front and back covers; Cover has separated from the pages). Includes the postal list for the circulation of The Historical Magazine and a list of rules that contributors and subscribers must adhere to. Also Vol. 1, No. 2 and 4 (1903)

Box 183 - Vol. 2 No. 2 September 1904. Hand bound, boards covered with a salmon fabric embroidered with title, date and rose designs. Nine drawings including one by Laura Hope and two by Una Taylor of the head of Napoleon and a full length portrait of the same subject, as ‘Le Grand Homme.'

Box 184 - Vol. 1 No. 8. March 1904. Hand bound with string. Soft leather wrappers. Contains three drawings including a pencil and watercolour copy of a man being drawn by horses.

Box 185 - Vol. 1 No. 10. May 1904. Hand bound and with boards bound in green velvet and a gold embroidered ribbon border. 1 loose leaf. Contains five drawings including one by Laura Hope and a fine sketch of ‘Costumes of the date of Queen Elizabeth’ by Blanche Buxton.

Box 186 - -Vol. 1 No. VI. January 1904. Hand bound with string from various sized notepaper. Front cover has all but disintegrated. Contains three drawings including a pen and ink composition of Queen Guinevere and a pen and ink and watercolour drawing of a scene from Richard II.

Box 187 -Vol.1 No.12 July 1904. Hand bound and sewn. Green velvet covered boards, embellished with silver sequined lace which is partly detached and disintegrating. Contains nine illustrations including drawings by Una Taylor of Henry V and Richard III ‘Richard Crookback Duke of Gloucester.'

Dates

  • Creation: 1750-1954

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the File: 175 Linear Feet (213 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the File: English

Repository Details

Part of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Repository

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