Now rare complete 132-page January, 1869 issue of the Edinburgh-produced Blackwood's Magazine. This one rescued from an old damaged bound volume of the monthly. Nice clean text. No markings. American Edition. Highlights include:

Margaret Oliphant's opening long (29 pages) essay, one in a in a series of essays of "Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II." This is Part IV, "The Philosopher [George Berkeley]."   

Foreign Service officer William Stigland's essay on "The Fifteen Louis D'or of [French Dramatist Pierre]Beaumarchais."

Novelist Laurence Lockhart's serial novel, Doubles and Quits (Part III).

Archibald Alison, Jr.'s extended essay in review of Alexander William Eastlake's History of the War in the Crimea (Volumes 3-4). 22 pages.

Charles Lever's essay in review of Francis Dwyer's On Seats and Saddles, Bits and Bitting: the Prevention and Cure of Restiveness in Horses.

John Tulloch's "Christian Missions in India."

The above author identifications are from the Wellesley Index (I, 130).