1834 American Monthly Magazine with The Brothers, Tale of The Fronde, HW Herbert

Description: 1834 American Monthly Magazine with The Brothers, Tale of The Fronde, HW Herbert THE BROTHERS A Tale of the Fronde by Anonymous [Henry William Herbert] Chapters 1, 2 and 4 Serialized In The American Monthly Magazine Volume IV No. II – November 1834 No. III – December 1834 No. V – February 1835 Theree bound issues. New York, Monson Bancroft, Original Editions. Hardcover. Custom bound half-cloth with gilt spine title, octavo, pages 75-216, 289-360. Issue No. II includes front and rear wrappers, Issue No. III includes front wrapper only, Issue No. IV includes rear wrapper only. Note. There was no October 1834 issue because, as explained in a note to the subscribers, the editor had broken a limb. The front pastedown has the label of Richard C. Story for whom the book may have been bound. A bound volume containing three rare issues of The American Monthly Magazine from 1834 and 1835. The three issues include three chapters from The Brothers, A Tale of The Fronde, by Henry William Herbert who also wrote under the name Frank Forester. This was Herbert’s first published novel. Chapter I is in the November 1834 issue Chapter II is in the December 1834 Chapter IV is in the February 1835 Presumabbly, Chapter III was in the January 1834 issue which is not bound in this volume. Other articles in these issues include: “Wild Sports in Many Lands”, lengthy reviews of “Visit to Texas” and of “The Last days of Pompei”, extracts from “A week at Fire Island”, etc. The first appearance in print of the historical romance which Henry William Herbert serialized anonymously starting in late 1834 in The American Monthly Magazine, which he co-founded and edited. The first American edition in book form was published by Harper in 1835 (2 volumes). The English edition, with additional miscellaneous tales added to fill out the third volume, was published in London by Henry Colburn in 1844. Several chapters were serialized in 1834 and early 1835 in The American Monthly Magazine, which Herbert edited but he left the magazine before the serialization was completed. Several differences are immediately apparent between the serialized version and the Harper edition. The serialized version omits the Introduction marked as Chapter I in the book. Thus, Chapter I in the magazine becomes Chapter II in the book; other additions transform Chapter IV in the serialzed version into Chapter VI in the book. The story is set within the popular uprising in France, known as the Fronde of the Parlement (1648-49), against Cardinal Mazarin, successor of Richelieu, and told from the point of view of Harry de Mornington, an English cavalier who had fought against Cromwell and was forced into exile in France after the execution of Charles I, where he took up arms for Mazarin. Henry William Herbert (7 April 1807 – 17 May 1858), pen name Frank Forester, was an English novelist, poet, historian, illustrator, journalist and writer on sport] Starr writes that "as a classical scholar he had few equals in the United States . . . his knowledge of English history and literature was extensive; he was a pen-and-ink artist of marked ability; as a sportsman he was unsurpassed; his pupils idolized him." Biography The eldest son of William Herbert, Dean of Manchester (himself the son of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon), Herbert was born in London. Herbert was educated at Eton College and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1830. Having lost his property through a dishonest agent, he emigrated to the United States in 1831 and for the following eight years taught Latin and Greek at a private school in New York City. In 1833 he started the American Monthly Magazine, which he edited, in conjunction with A. D. Patterson, till 1835 when he withdrew as a result of disagreements with his associate, Charles Fenno Hoffman. His vanity and arrogance due to his ancestry, his father being the son of the Earl of Carnarvon and his mother, the Hon. Letitia Emily Dorothea Allen, a daughter of Viscount Allen, did not win him many friends. Edgar Allan Poe felt that he was "not unapt to fall into pompous grandiloquence" and sometimes was "woefully turgid", while others saw his novels as "prolix, lacking in imagination and humor." Herbert was a man of varied accomplishments, translating many of the novels of Eugène Sue and Alexandre Dumas, père into English. He is listed as a contributor to the first edition of The New American Cyclopedia by way of writing articles on Archery, Armour, Austerlitz, Balaklava, St. Bartholomew Massacre, Carthage, Charles I & II of England, Charles XII of Sweden etc. In 1839 Herbert married Sarah Barker, of Bangor, Maine. They had one son, William George, and one daughter, Louisa. Sarah died 11 March 1844, and their daughter, Louisa, died on 19 August of the same year. William George, their son, was sent to school in England and remained there. Fifteen years later he married Adela Budlong, who filed for divorce after three months.[citation needed] Herbert was staying at the Stevens Hotel in Manhattan, New York City and invited several men to dine with him on what would be the last night of his life. Only one gentleman accepted his invention, Philip Hone Anthon, a pupil of Herbert's, who accepted the invitation because, as he testified at the inquest, Herbert "had complained of feeling very lonely because his wife had left him". After this he begged Anthon to spend as much time as possible with him. While talking with Anthon, Herbert dashed into his bedroom and shot himself. He took his own life on 17 May 1858 at 2:00 am. CONDITION: Good. (Covers have edge and corner wear, chipped corner on rear board. New York Lyceum stamp on two issues. Contents are complete except for missing rear wrapper on one issues and front wrapper on a second issue. Some text pages have small bent or worn corners, occasional pages with some soil, creases or worn edges. Tight binding.} Check our other auctions and store listings for additional Check our other auctions and store listings for additional unusual items Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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