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Second issue. First published February 12, 1819, by George Humphrey.

The Comic Almanack, each with 12 of his witty drawings of London by month, was the perfect foil for Cruikshank’s talents. Enormously successful, it provided Cruikshank with his primary, if modest, regular income for many years.

The etching depicts the Prince of Wales (now Regent) assisting in the bath of Lady Hertford, his mistress. The Nairs, groups of Hindi castes that practiced polygamy and hypergamy (marrying above your caste), were referred to in a recently published…

First edition, first issue of the first and second series complete in one volume, in original blind-stamped brown cloth binding.

Just two months after its Strand debut, the eighth story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes appeared in one of the magazines published by T. S. Arthur, a leading figure in the American temperance movement and famed for his temperance novel, Ten…

From the first and second issues of "Twelve Sketches Illustrative of Sir Walter Scott's Demonology and Witchcraft," published for Cruikshank by J. Robins & Co. London. 1830. According to Cohn, the first issue of Cruikshank's plates was only on plain…

Douglass Corrigan took off from Brooklyn in a jerry-built plane on a foggy morning in July 1938 and landed in Dublin twenty-eight hours later. Having been repeatedly denied permission to fly across the Atlantic, the likeable 31-year-old aircraft…

In this issue of Gentleman’s Magazine, a reader identified as “B.L.” reported on a nasal reconstruction performed in the then-British colony of India. This report revolutionized the practice of rhinoplasty, which had not been written about in nearly…