The Gasometer ; or, Dunfermline literary magazine : 1832
1832
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Bound volume of monthly magazine The Gasometer, January to December 1831 inclusive. The preface, dated 16 January 1832, Dunfermline, states no more issues would be produced, and alludes to individuals having 'reviled' the publication. Henderson's Annals of Dunfermline, p630, includes this: 'the contributors to it were " native artists," &c., whose papers referred to "anything and everything". It might have lived longer, had many of said contributions been thrown into the waste-basket.' It was made up of essays, news, poems, illustrations etc. (eg. Dr Gillespie's speech on Reform; letter suggesting fish be sold at the unoccupied Flesh-market rather than the Tron, because of the smell; Antiques in Dunfermline belonging to Joseph Noel Paton). Each edition began with a play featuring Cockspur, Argand, Batwing and Jet, noms de plume of contributors.
Imprint:
Dunfermline : John Miller, 1832
Collation:
viii, 497p. : ill., ; 14 cm.
Notes:
Preface and Contents included
System details:
3815, 6344
Local class:
D/NEW
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3451728