Various — Temple Bar the Fifty-Eighth Volume

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1880. Leather. A yearly volume of Temple Bar magazine, in very attractive leather binding. A monthly literary periodical which achieved success rivaling Thackeray's Cornhill Magazine, Temple Bar published work by the likes of Wilkie Collins, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jane Austen and Amy Levy, and makes for a excellent embodiment of the era's literature. In half-calf binding with gilt detailing and paper-covered boards. Externally sound, there is wear to the boards, joints, extremities and backstrips, with some cracking to joints and tenderness to hinges. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are generally bright and clean throughout, aside from some spotting to the endpages. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .