New Lady's Magazine. The New Lady's Magazine; or, Polite, Useful, and Entertaining Monthly Companion for the Fair Sex, London: printed, by Royal Authority, for Alex. Hogg, 1792-6. 5 volumes, 8vo (210 x 120 mm), modern half morocco, each volume issued in 12 monthly numbers plus supplement (1792 without January-June; 1793 incomplete at end; 1796 with section-title for January only, presence or completeness of remaining numbers unknown), 133 engraved plates including frontispieces (many folding, depicting needlework patterns, cuts of meat, zoological subjects, portraits, literary scenes, topographical views, etc.), engraved volume-titles to volumes 1794-6, 22 leaves of folding music (one for each month plus supplement of 1792, and January-September 1793), required plate count unknown but evidently lacking at least 1792 frontispiece and volume-title, 1793 volume-title, and one plate at 1794 p. 59, main text of 1794-6 interspersed with runs of various other periodicals including the Monthly Intelligencer, Wonderful Magazine, and an edition of Pamela, various nicks, creases and tears to plates (generally minor), 1793 frontispiece laid down, January with erosion to lower margin, 1794 with worming in gutter to June (occasional light worming elsewhere), a few other blemishes, the set sold as seen, together with:
Kinnersley (Thomas, editor). The Matrimonial Miscellany, and Mirror of Human Nature; containing Essays on Happiness, and Various Subjects connected with Conjugal Felicity [volume 2: The Fruitless Inquiry, or Search after Happiness, written by the Celebrated Mrs. Hayward, corrected and improved], 1st edition, London: T. Kinersley, 1818-19. 2 volumes, 8vo (209 x 126 mm), contemporary tree sheep (rebacked and recornered with original spines laid down, labels renewed, volume 1 front board near detached), volume 1 with 13 engraved plates, volume 2 with 12 (including a portrait, not listed), plates spotted (qty: 7)

Provenance: John Harold Fawcett CMG (1929-2019), British diplomat (ownership inscription to volume 3 frontispiece verso).

ESTC P2594 (New Lady's Magazine, 1786-93) & P2599 (ibid. 1794-5; later numbers not listed). Library Hub traces two copies only of The Matrimonial Miscellany (BL and Oxford), and one or perhaps two complete sets including The Fruitless Inquiry, whose status as the second volume (and not a separate work) is evident in the notice to subscribers in the first.