SCRIBNER'S MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE : Vol. XXII (22); June 1881, Number 2 ; A Rainy Day with Uncle Remus -1 (Harris); Madame Delphine-2 (Cable); A Fearful Responsibility-1 (Howells); Peter the Great--8 (Schuyler); North Shore Long Island (Farnham); New York Sanitation-2 (Waring); Lobster (Bishop); Keenan's Charge-Chancellorsville (Lathrop); etc de J.G. Holland, editor; Joel Chandler Harris, George Washington Cable, William Dean Howells, Charles H. Farnham, George E. Waring jr., William H. Bishop, George Parsons Lathrop, et al - 1881

New York, New York: Scribner & Co, 1881. First Edition. Stiff Printed Wraps. Good +. A complete single issue, including covers and ads. Small quarto, 10" tall, pages 161 to 320 + ads, illustrated wraps. A good + and clean overall--a sturdy soft cover magazine with minor shelf wear, light exterior surface soiling, back strip chipping at top and bottom of spine; internal binding solid, paper clean and moderately yellowed, with a damp stain to the fore-edge margin of the first few pages and one page pulled loose. This is an original copy with all of the editorial material and advertisements. Note: 'Scribner's Monthly' was later retitled 'The Century Magazine' in 1881, with new management, under the editorship of the great Richard Watson Gilder, carrying forward its high standards for illustration and the best authors. The 'Scribner' name was used again for a new publication in 1887. Subject matters range from art, fiction, and poetry to history and science. As such it makes a terrific read as an anthology of its moment in time.