Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. XXXII -

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, outer joints cracked but . firm, pages toned and some scattered foxing to interior.. 1866. Hardcover. Bound volume of this monthly magazine comprising the December 1865 - May 1866 issues. Brown three-quarter-leather with marbled sides. Red speckled edges. Gilt titles and five raised bands on spine. Gilt-stamped leather lettering piece with owner name (Sarah Jane Morrison) on front pastedown. Many engravings. Contains articles and stories by Wilkie Collins (Armadale) , Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Our Thanksgiving) , Charles Dickens (Our Mutual Friend) , several poems by Herman Melville, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Death and Sisyphus) , and others throughout. Other articles cover such topics as the printing and production of the magazine and Harper and Brothers' book binding (many engravings of book presses) , mining in Virginia, Pacific railroad route, bird migration, Blackwells Island Lunatic Asylum in New York, Charles Ellet and his Steam Ram, Red Jacket, diamonds, post-Civil War Richmond, Virginia, underground animal shelters, Civil War Battle of the Peninsula, bird nests, U. S. Navy in North Carolina, Prince of Kung, New York City restaurants, Taeping War, shoddy consumer goods and foods, dream interpretation, lead mines of Galena, Illinois, Yosemite, Livingstones last African expedition, American marriage customs, and air pollution. .