THE OWL: A WEDNESDAY JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND SOCIETY
London, England: 1867 - 1869. Leather-bound. Quarto. Bound issues. Front and rear boards both cross-ruled in black with owl motifs to each corner compartment. Beveled edges, very scuffed. Inner dentelles. Scuffing to boards and front board almost entirely detached. Marbled endpapers in the nonpareil style of burgundy, buff, eccru, turquoise and white. Bookplate to front free endpaper of Edward Montagu Stuart Granville, Earl of Wharncliffe, who was apparently one of the founders and principals.This bound gathering of 65 separate numbers of the admittedly irregularly-issued magazine covers February 13, 1867 to July 28, 1869. First issue was said to have been purposely numbered #1000
This publication seems comprised of parliamentary commentary, long barely attributed poems, general gossip, satire, double acrostics, advertisements,biting humor *usually at someone else's expense). and general Snooty Omniscience, Covers Fair: Text Block: Very Good. Item #88377
Wikipedia's compendium of information states: ""a satirical society newspaper published in London from 1864 to 1870. Irregularly published, but sometimes fortnightly, it cost 6d., was Tory in politics and consisted of a mix of satire and London society gossip. The Owl was founded by Morning Post editor Algernon Borthwick, together with Evelyn Ashley, Lord Wharncliffe (1827–99) and James Archibald Stuart-Wortley.[The Conservative MP Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington was joint editor of the paper from 1864 to 1868. Contributors included the architect Arthur Ashpitel (1807–69), Disraeli's private secretary Montagu Corry, Laurence Oliphant, and Henry Drummond Wolff.[2] They also included Mortimer Collins, Lord Houghton, Ralph Bernal Osborne, George Otto Trevelyan, and Thomas Gibson Bowles."
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