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These small octavo magazines are illustrated on the front cover and many have a number of further illustrations inside. They may have occasional foxing or other light staining. The sheets are not sewn.
The Old Print Man will be adding more of these 16 pp illustrated small octavo weekly magazines, dating from the early Nineteenth Century, soon.
Images are a guide but tend to exaggerate any blemishes and may make white paper look shaded. I endeavour to mention any damage.
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Apr 1 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Weber in England, William Tell in Switzerland, Hawking and Henry VIII, Snakes of Singapore, Cossack Wild-Boar Hunt and Revenge on Bankers!
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Apr 14 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Hottentots and Honey Hunting, the true Holy Lance, Recommended Evergreen Shrubs, Ancient Diversions in England (and Wales), Stonehenge, a Jew Slopseller and a Visit to a Mountain Dew Manufactory in Ireland.
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Apr 21 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Mrs Siddons as Lady MacBeth, the Tarantula, Inch-Colm - Mid Lothian, the Ettick Shepherd's Remarks on Dinner Fare, Bees in Egypt, Bourdeaux, Forest Vegetation and Woman's Love.
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Apr 28 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Merrie England on May Morning, Hints to Surgeons, Shakespeare's Tomb, Ancient Manner of Sending Members to Parliament, Ancient Equestrian Statue, the Cagots- Pyrenees, an Electric Column, Caffer Driving in South Africa and a Visit to the Assizes.
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Apr 29 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including the Death of Murat King of Naples, a new work of Sir Walter Scott and the Trials of Authorship.
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Aug 26 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Tunbridge Castle and Tunbridge Wells, Oysters, Schools of Painters, the Watch of Robert Bruce and Frog-Eating.
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Dec 1 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including a Voyage up the Mississippi, London Club-houses, Astronomical Occurrences, Castle of the Seven Towers at Constantinople, Nautical Phrases, Irish Twins, Hampton Court Palace, Fairy Loaves, Quacks, Charming away the Hooping Cough and items on Paris, Arabian Horse, Hunting in Persia, a Musician of Mandara in Africa and Fishing in Bornou in Africa.
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Dec 10 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including the Burmese State Carriage, Caps and Hats, Amber and Ambergris, Suttees in India, the Goodwin Sands, Steam Engines in Lancashire, the Cameleon and Gaming.
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Dec 16 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Covent Garden, the Miseries of Shipboard, Edinburgh, Gibraltar and Winter.
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Dec 17 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Edinburgh High School, Martial Games, Ventriloquism, Brownies - a Danish Tradition and a substantial article on Burma.
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Dec 1825 Supplementary The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 8 page weekly magazine with a separate portrait is mainly a life of Captain Parry and his last Voyage with two Russian articles. Foxed.
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Dec 31 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including a Day at Cintra, The Bridge of Sighs, Festival at Ardmore in Ireland and the Newspaper Industry and turnover figures.
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Feb 10 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Embalming, Dutch Customs, Recollections of a Public School, the Pestilence of Zaragoza and the new Chelsea Church.
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Feb 12 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including the Pet Burns, the New London Custom House "acquired … unfortunate celebrity … part of the Long Room having actually fallen down" and cheap periodicals and the education of the people.
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Feb 19 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including some epigrams, Bow Bells, Highbury, White Conduit House (a Tavern), and Tyre and Lady Hester Stanhope in the Levant.
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Feb 2 1828 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including English and French Theatre, The Ireland Bar, View of a French Abattoir, Byron, Domestic Inventions, a Mission to Burma and the Irish Bar.
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Feb 25 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Brentford, Russian Coronation, A Naval Sketch, Richmond, Treatment of the Insane in the Netherlands and Setting up a Joint-Stock Company organise and finance Matrimony!
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Feb 4 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including the Inns of Court, Thanksgiving - an American Tale, Ladies of Newfoundland, Tobacco and Snuff, New Calendars, Greek Theatre and Carlisle Castle.
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Feb 9 1828 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including including Miseries of a Sea Voyage, The North Cape, Of Books and Booksellers, Newspaper Sentiment, Ancient carving at Manchester, and the Napoleonic Triumphal Pillar at Paris.
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Jan 1 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Rome, Diamonds, a Royal Cradle and a cake-built house.
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Jan 13 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Wickham Court - Kent, Spiders, a Monument in the Forest of Harewood, Garrick, Fancies in a Tea-cup and the Genteel Economy showing how to provide a meal of seven dishes for two for just seven pence.
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Jan 14 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Puffing in Advertising, the Reign of Terror in France with a count of those massacred in the Cloisters, Amusements for the Christmas Holidays, Visit to a Coal-pit at Radstock, Artists Colours and Boulogne.
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Jan 15 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Pantomime and Harlequin, Duelling in German Universities, Coaches and Sedan Chairs and Kits Coty House.
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Jan 19 1828 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Van Dieman's Land, Bakewell, Edinburgh, Canton, Mathews the Comedian, Oranges, Lingga in Malaya, Ceylon Shell Fisheries and the Story of Macbeth.
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Jan 26 1828 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Pantomime, Architectural Illustrations, Superstitions of the Sea, the Potato, the Isle of Man, Squalls on African Shores, the Sandwich Islands, Swiss Clocks, the Rosyth Tower, the Inquisition in Sixteenth Century Italy, Books (By an American), and the Beggar's Opera.
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July 14 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Regent's Park Architecture, Rafts and Rhine Scenery, Archery in England and Scotland, a Warning to Fruit Eaters, Buonaparte Attempts Suicide and a descripion of a Night Attack by a Subaltern in America.
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July 16 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Lancaster Castle, Dead Sea, Ghosts, London Ballad Singers, Customs of New Englanders, Cemeteries and Brazilian Smugglers.
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Jun 2 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Swingfield near Dover, Native Reminiscences by a Young American, Angling in the Docks, the Development of Geometry, Indian Answer to a Challenge to a Duel, 118 year old man, African Travelling and Anabaptists in Wales.
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Jun 9 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
the Laplander and Bruin, The Burning Cliff - Dorset, George Washington, Arctic Winter, the Wooden Walls of Ireland, Immense Coal-fish Shoals and Mrs Jordan's Delight in the Stage.
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June 11 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including French Coronations, the Sainte Ampoule or Holy Phial and the Cathedral of Rheims.
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June 1825 Supplementary The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including humorous advice for a Joint-Stock Horse Manufactory Company, Of Ghosts and Second Sight and Peter the Great as a labourer.
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June 25 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 8 page weekly magazine with a separate portrait is mainly a life of Captain John Franklin who is on an expedition at the time this is published. It also has articles on the Origin of Charity Schools and Military Engines of the Normans. Foxed.
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June 4 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics Constantinople, Fanaticism in France and more on Bear Baiting.
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Mar 3 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Visits to the harem, Theatres, Astronomical Observations, Eastern Funerals and Norwich as a Port, Domestic Economy in France, Funeral Ceremonies of the Turks and Chinese and the Holy Grayle.
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Mar 31 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Laplanders and Reindeer, Astronomical Observations, graphic account of a Shipwreck off Mozambique, an Adventure in Italy, an Eccentric Linguist from Aberdaron in Wales and a Doctor Outwittrd during a childbirth.
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May 12 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Conveying Water to London, Yarmouth Roads and Pier, Country Rambles and Weed Hoeing, Origin of Cabinet Councils, St Peter's at Rome, Intelligence of a Wasp and a Singular Diseaase of lapland Reindeer.
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May 19 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Early Medical Knowledge, Russian Coachmen, The Rhine in Switzerland, Crosby House - London, Character of Hindoos, Cowardice of the Lion, Bushman's Lunar Guide-post and a Brigade of Sailors.
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May 23 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Bear Baiting, The Great Plague, St Martin in the Fields and Russian items.
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May 5 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Shakespearian Jubilee Procession, Ohio State, Stonehenge, Ullswater and Windermere, Astronomical Observations, Scotland's Mount Pleasant, the Beejapoor Gun, Pulpit Hour-glasses and Chickweed.
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Nov 18 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including The Living Anvil Stock at Galgate, the Levee of the prime Minister of a Turkish Pasha, Adventures with an Elephant, Eastbury House -Essex and May-day in the Village.
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Nov 1826 Supplementary The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Bees in Mexico, an Irish Holy Well, Prices of Provisions through History, Verona, An Alpine Winter, An Evening Scene at Sea near Greenland's Coast, and the Escape of Mary Queen of Scots from Lochleven Castle.
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Nov 19 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Damascus, the Rights of Woman, Early Books, Antimony, the Fort of Outredroog in India and the Colouring of Rum.
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Nov 24 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Living at Calais, Slavery in the East, Navarino including a plan of the positions of the fleets, Irish Grandees, Roman Funerals, Horse-chestnuts, Caddis Worms, Engraving on Glass, Naval Schools in France and Habits of Seals.
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Nov 5 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Freemasonry, St Anne's Well Nottingham, the Road over Mount Caucasus and the Escurial in Spain.
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Oct 13 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Dirty People, Quackery, the Palace at Stockholm, Cross Fell - Westmoreland, Salmon Kippering in Dunbartonshire, Trial of Charles I and an Arcana of Science.
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Oct 14 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including a letter from an Officer at the Siege of Bhurtpore earlier this year, on Drunkenness, Archery, an Highwayman, Cochineal, the Ourang-Outang, Russia and the Moon, a Forger and a Fencer.
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Oct 21 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Gipsies, Alpine Glaciers and Scenery, a Burmese Funeral, the Tolbooth - Edinburgh and a Sailor's Terrestrial Pleasures!
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Oct 27 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Travelling Fare, On Coal Heavers, a Singular Assassination in Kincardineshire, the Camelopard (the Giraffe), the Isle of Sheppey, the Use of Horse-chestnuts, Tea, Prison Torture and English Fruits including the Nectarine and the Orange.
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Oct 8 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including the York Music Festival, Garrick, Spatolino the Assassin, Tribute to Byron and the Doncaster Gold Cup.
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Sep 16 1826 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including a Curious plan for the prevention and extinguishing of fires, Salvington - Sussex, the Present Appearance of the New London Bridge being constructed, the Neapolitans and the Welsh.
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Sep 17 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Management of the Hair, Detecting Salt in Sugar, the Sorrows of a Donkey and Sir Isaac Newton's House.
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Sep 24 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Paul Jones the Pirate, Gaming, Handel Commemoration, Cossacs, Versailles, Sea Elephants and the Perils of Drinking Cold Water in Hot Weather by an American Physician.
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Sep 3 1825 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Herne Bay, Wales (the little Switzerland of Great Britain), Savoy Palace, the Peninsular War and Music in England, Wales and Scotland.
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Sep 8 1827 The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Sep 8 1827 This 16 page weekly magazine has articles and illustrations on a wide range of topics including Bullfights in Spain and Portugal, Warming and Ventilating Houses (Excellent fuel is so cheap in Britain), New Hammersmith Bridge, Dublin Post Office, Australian Patriotism, a Tucumanese Schoolmaster - Santiago and Mental Derangement.
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