Lot 219: The Quarterly Review. London: John Murray, 1809- 1967 A nearly full run

The Quarterly Review. London: John Murray, 1809- 1967 A nearly full run of the Tory answer to the Edinburgh Review. Founded by a small group of intellectuals and writers including Sir Walter Scott, the Quarterly Review is famous for publishing scathing literary reviews—including the article that allegedly snuffed out the poet John Keats, according to a mocking stanza in Lord Byron's Don Juan. This periodical includes reports on various other literary works, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, as well as commentary on a wide variety of topics from landscape gardening, politics, Napoleon's exile, Classical scholarship, and British colonial expeditions around the world, making it an indispensible source for contemporary views on every aspect of British life during its long print run. 245 volumes, octavo. Mostly contemporary full or half calf over boards, many of the later bindings in Althorp library bindings (a few covers or spine panels detached).

John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer and Viscount Althorp (1835-1910, British Liberal Party politician under Prime Minister Gladstone; bookplates in some volumes, Althorp library bookplates and bindings on later issues). Sold as a periodical, not subject to return. (245)