Book Description

Two beautifully produced ‘Magazines’ by Huguenot historian George Beaumont Beeman. Though not signed by Beeman the magazines are ‘Conducted by The Bee’ and published by ‘G. Manbeepambee’, and were purchased alongside an offprint of a later article by Beeman (included here, entitled ‘The protest against heretical doctrines in France.’, 1921). The first issue features a ‘Prefatory Notice’, ‘Letters to the Editor’, and essay on ‘Procrastination’ and an illustrated biography of William Caxton; similar contents to the second issue, which includes a poem ‘On the Defeat of the British Column in Zululand’, and an illustrated biography of Alexander III King of Macedon. George Beaumont Beeman (1862-1954) was President of the Huguenot Society from 1917 to 1920. Born at Cranbrook, Kent he was the son of Thomas and Sarah Beeman, wrote an Australian Mining Manual in 1896 and subsequently became a stock broker in London - probably as a junior clerk he first worked close to the Monument from where very likely took his imprint for The Miscellanea. His work very often necessitated a large number of trips to the USA where he seems to have corresponding connections to the New York Huguenots as a keen historian of all thing Huguenot he also wrote a steady number of articles for the society. He died unmarried in London in 1954.
Author [BEEMAN, George Beaumont].
Date March [-April] 1879.
Binding first issue never bound, loosely held together; second issue sewn; cover of the first issue somewhat darkened, a little worn around the edges, but overall in very good condition and remarkably well preserved.
Publisher Published by G. Manbeepambee & Co., No. 3 on the top of the Monument. (1st Floor, left-hand side).
Condition MANUSCRIPT MAGAZINE. 8vo (145 x 225mm); pp. 16, continuously paginated (wraps not counted in pagination), with two separate illustrations;

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