1836 LADIES COMPANION. Very Rare Lengthy Original on "The Slave Insurrection at New Orleans"

Very scarce with no other copies on the market. This early women's periodical reflected the then-current fashionable press, including some horror and macabre [Edgar Allan Poe was a contributor], interest in foreign fashion and news; women's issues - fashion, etc., but also women's rights issues; and current events. 

The present includes a significant 9pp double-column report on the Slave Insurrection at New Orleans, the most significant slave revolt on American soil up until that date, prefiguring later revolts under Nat Turner, etc., 

[Various]. The Ladies Companion. Janury to March, 1836; May to July, 1836; and October, 1836. New York. 1836. 

Contents include:

Full-page engraving of Merchant's Room on Wall Street; full-page engraving of the Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island [with accompanying poem]; Full-page engraving of the Lunatic Asylum [with accompanying article].

Articles include: The Spirit of War [Original poem, intense!]; Reflections before Marriage; Advices to Unmarried Ladies; Recollections of an Aged Pastor by L. H. Sigourney; Boxiana; Confessions of a Quack Doctor; Sketches from the Diary of a Reduced Fashionable; The Prison Inquest by Frederic William Naylor Bayley [on debtors' prisons]; Snarleyyow or the Dog Fiend by Captain Marryat; Mushroom Hunting - A Story; Lines on an Infant's Death; The Rivals; The Broken Heart; The Phantom Ship; On Kissing; On the Perception of Women; Tale of an Absent Lover by Edward Maturin; Lines on the Late Conflagration; The Cherokee's Threat; Gottfried Wolfgang - A Tale Picked Up in a French Mad-House; The dead Son Restored; The Billiard Table; Matrimony Made Easy; The Influence of Women; Kondiaronk - A Sketch of Indian Warfare; The Captive; A Tragic Scene in a Private Madhouse by M. G. Lewis; The French Coquette - A Sketch from Life; A Piratical Sketch [Pirates]; The Generous Lover from the Spanish of Miguel de Cervantes [Original Translation - First Edition - Don Quixote]; Woman's Grief; etc. etc. 

Of special notice:

The Negro Insurrection. A Tale of New Orleans [Original]. 9pp, appx 3,500 words [pp.105-113]; Negro Wit [p.127]

Good condition in original half leather, large 8vo. Heavily rubbed, but consolidated and attractive. No general title, probably a gathering of originally loose mailed monthlies, thus accounting for the sporadic assemblage. Some foxing. Engravings have folds, but are very crisp. Highly desirable. One engraving appears to be not present.