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- Large octavo, 10-3/4 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcovers, twenty-six issues each bound in the original pictorial buff wraps, each illustrated with a vignette of a globe beneath the banner title held by 2 cherubs and with an illustration of an "Atlantic and Pacific R.R. Co.", train labeled "For Home & Travel" below. The covers are creased and several are stained with some chipping to the edges of the wrappers. The wrappers on 5 issues are detached. Each issue has a small subscriber's label on the front wrap. Approximately 40 pages per issue, including the covers and pictorial ads and a total of 4 plates by George du Maurier. Each of the issues has light to moderate dampstaining to approximately the top 1/3 of the pages. The overlapping edges of many pages are slightly chipped and there are ink stains on pages 303-304. A complete run of the issues which contained the full text of Charles Reade's novel. RARE in serial form.The contents are as follows: Volume 5, No. 105. Consisting of pages (1-4), 1-32, & (5-8) containing the text to "Foul Play" Part 1; Volume 5, No. 106. Pages (1-4), 33-64, & (5-8). The wrappers are detached. "Foul Play" Part 2; Volume 5, No. 107. (1-4), 65-96, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 3; Volume 5, No. 108. (1-4), 97-128, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 4; Volume 5, No. 109. (1-4), 129-160, (5-8) pages. The wrappers are detached, "Foul Play" Part 5. Also in this issue: Matthew Arnold: "Anarchy and Authority", Richard A. Proctor: "Colored Suns", Algernon Charles Swinburne "Ave Atque Vale: In Memory of Charles Baudelaire" and Tennyson "On a Spiteful Letter". Volume 5, No. 110. (1-4), 161-192, (5-8) pages. This issue does not publish a chapter of "Foul Play". However, laid into this issue is du Maurier's plate "The Arrest". The edges of the plate are chipped with staining in the margins. Volume 5, No. 111. (1-4), 193-224, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 6. Also in this issue: Tennyson "Wages" from Advance Sheets of Macmillan's Magazine. Volume 5, No. 112. (1-4), 225-256, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 7. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "On Shipboard". The right half of the plate is dampstained. Also in this issue: Fanny Kemble "Lady Macbeth" from Advance Sheets, Robert Buchanan "A London Lyric" from Advance Sheets and Tennyson "1865-1866" from Advance Sheets. Volume 5, No. 113. (1-4), 257-288, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 8. Also in this issue: Matthew Arnold "Anarchy and Authority" (Second Paper) and Arminius Vambery "Days and Nights in Persia". Volume 5, No. 114. (1-4), 289-320, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 9; Volume 5, No. 115. (1-4), 321-352, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 10. Also in this issue: "Some Curious Facts About Playing-Cards" translated from the French. Volume 5, No. 116. (1-4), 353-384, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 11. Laid into this issue is the du Maurier plate "On Board the Cutter". There is light dampstaining to the plate. Volume 5, No. 117. (1-4), 385-416, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 12. There is a long tear to the front wrapper, without loss, and the wrappers are detached. Volume 5, No. 118. (1-4), 417-448, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 13. Also in this issue is "Diary in Libby Prison" by Lieutenant-Colonel Szabad. Volume 5, No. 119. (1-4), 449-480, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 14. Also in this issue "A Liberal Education and Where to Find It" by Professor Huxley. Volume 5, No. 120. (1-4), 481-512, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 15. There is a textual illustration of stones, the outline of which "resembled a great fish wanting the tail". Also in this issue: "Billiards and Billiard Players" from Advance Sheets of London Society and "Memorial Literature of the American War" by G.O. Trevelyan from Advance Sheets of Macmillan's Magazine. Volume 5, No. 121. (1-4), 513-544, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 16. The wrappers are detached. Volume 5, No. 122. (1-4), 545-576, (5-8) pages, "Foul Play" Part 17. There is a half-page textual diagram, a circle illustrating a "Round Robin". Seller Inventory # 97273
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