Description: THE PENNY MAGAZINE March 7, 1835 Warkworth Hermitage, Northumberland; William Gilpin of Boldre, Hampshire lead mines of Britain This is a paper which is over 180 years old. It is printed in a small format, measuring 7 by 11 in size, and is 8 pages long. The issue came from a bound volume and has typical minor disbinding marks at its spine, plus a slight bit of age browning (see photos), but is otherwise in excellent condition. The lead article is on WARKWORTH HERMITAGE, with the front page of the paper entirely devoted to a full-page wood engraving of the Hermitage, from an original drawing done in 1834. This illustration is followed by an article of over a full page on the subject, beginning: Warkworth Hermitage, situated upon the north bank of the Coquet, about half a mile west of the celebrated castle of the same name, the baronial residence of the great Earls of Northumberland, was founded at an uncertain date, for a single hermit. It continues on to give a little background of the Hermitage, and its present state: . . . Passing from this outward building by the entrance, the visiter ascends, by seventeen steps, to a little vestibule, above the inner door-way . . . Etc. * * * * * * * * * In the center of the issue is a two-page article on WILLIAM GILPIN, HIS CHURCH AND SCHOOL. It has two nice woodcuts, captioned Boldre Church, Hampshire, and The Rev. William Gilpin's School, at Boldre. In giving some history of the Rev. Gilpin and his parish duties, the text begins: The village of Boldre, on the borders of the New Forest, in Hampshire, contains nothing in itself peculiarly deserving of notice; but the traveller who visits the pleasant town of Lymington, from which Boldre is about two miles distant, may be induced to stroll towards the village-church on learning that it was for about twenty years the scene of the pastoral labours of the late Rev. William Gilpin, a man who deserves to be held in remembrance by every person of taste, and especially by every lover of the picturesque, as an excellent critic in art, and an artist himself of no inconsiderable pretensions. * * * * * * * * * As part of a lengthy series of articles on the MINERAL KINGDOM, the paper also has over a page (approximately 170 lines of text) on LEAD, describing the ore's processing after its extraction from the lead mines of Great Britain, with about half of it on Method of obtaining the Metal from the Ore, and Uses of Lead. ************************* Background on this publication: The Penny Magazine was a weekly 8-page paper put out by Londons Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Throughout the 1830s, an American edition was very popular in the United States, only to dwindle into extinction during the following decade. The paper did not cover the current news of the day, and carried no advertising. Instead, the Penny Magazine provided excellent essays on a wide array of subjects, such as architecture, science, geography and natural history. The paper was compact in size, and illustrated with woodcut engravings. 188 [gsp10226] _gsrx_vers_1680 (GS 9.8.3 (1680))
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