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TWO VERY RARE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY JOURNALS - [ACADEMIC & THE COLLEGIAN] The Academic. Conducted by students in the University of Glasgow. Vol.I. Glasgow, Wardlaw and Cunninghame: and Richard Baynes, London, 1826 8vo, xi + (1) + 203 + (1)pp, one etched plate, well bound recently in green quarter cloth and marbled boards, spine lettered. A fine copy. An excellent set of numbers I to IX [Thursday 5th January 1826 - Thursday 27th April 1826], with a contemporary ink inscription on verso of title-page, "To Thomas Campbell Esq., Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow with the sincere congratulations of an admiring constituent. James Blair." Apparently all published and very rare. BUCOP locates no complete set, finding only partial sets at National Library of Scotland (nos. 1-7) and Dr William's Library (nos. 1-3). Not in the Union List. NSTC and COPAC together do find complete copies at the Bodleian + BL + NLS + Glasgow, however. (bound with), THE COLLEGIAN. Conducted by students in the University of Glasgow.Glasgow: James Cameron, 1827. 8vo, iv + (2) + 110pp, 4 etched plates including a fine portrait of George Jardine (Professor of Logic at the university who had died on 27 January 1827). A fine copy. An excellent set of numbers I - VII (Wednesday 13 December 1826 - Wednesday 7 March 1827). Apparently all published and very rare. BUCOP locates only one set (at the BL).NSTC and COPAC add no others. But not in the Union List. Two relatively early Glasgow university journals with a pot-pourri of articles both serious and amusing, together with a smattering of poetry, intended, according to the editors, to be "a permanent record of our collegiate pursuits, - a depository of those pains and pleasures whose influence will extend through the remainder of our lives". The authors of the Academic declared that theirs was "a joint production of a few young men, associated in the pursuit of literature, at a northern university". Those of the Collegian announced that that journal had "been conducted on a similar plan with that of the Academic ... and is partly intended as a continuation of that volume". The circulation of the work was "confined to a few individuals", resulting no doubt in its present rarity. Among the more serious articles are contributions on 'the philosophy of the science of mathematics', 'the inadequacy of utility as a standard of morals', atheism, remarks on the metaphysical and moral sciences, society and government, an anti-slavery meeting, the difference between wit and humour, degree and examination regulations, a long obituary of George Jardine, a defence of pugilism, etc. etc. Keywords :- Glasgow university, periodical, George Jardine Price - £275 |
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