The ECLECTIC MAGAZINE of Foreign Literature, Science and Art; Volume XLIII (forty-three) January 1858 to April 1858 (including February, March,) Numbers 1, 2, 3, & 4 [including reviews of] Travels in Arabia and Palestine 1838-1852; Handwriting on the Wall; Adventures in Oriental and Western Siberia; Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa 1849 - 1855; etc by W. H. Bidwell, Editor; Edward Robinson, Edwin Atherstone, Thomas Witlam Atkinson, Henry Barth et al - 1858

New York, New York: Eclectic Magazine, 1858. First Edition. Three-quarter leather over cloth. Good. Single volume--four issues bound without covers and advertisements. Small quarto, 9 1/2" tall, 6 engraved frontispieces + iv + 572 pages, marbled endpapers. A good hard cover over all with significant shelf wear, back strip leather taped over and that repair aged and chipped, fore-corners worn through to boards. Interior very good, hinges cracked but secure and internal binding solid, paper lightly yellowed with minor scattered foxing, fore-edges darkened. This is the publisher's edition, printed from the original plates and includes all of the editorial material (articles, stories, poetry, etc.) of the separate issues but lacks the advertisements and individual covers. It was the practice of the time for most of the better literary magazines to issue such editions before melting down the original printers' plates. Eclectic Magazine was a monthly anthology of literature published in other countries drawn from such publications as Blackwood's Magazine, Cornhill, Macmillan's, Fraser's, Quarterly Review, St. Paul's, Chamber's Journal, Contemporary Review, Temple Bar, etc.