THE CHAMPION (1814)

The Champion, A Weekly Political and Literary Journal, for the Year 1814 (comprising the full year's weekly issues with index). An exceptional, complete full-year run of this influential Regency-era weekly journal, capturing. 52 issues in total.

​Published by: John Scott at the Office of The Champion, No. 1, Catherine Street, Strand, London, 1814.

​1814 was a pivotal watershed year in geopolitical history, and The Champion provides a fascinating, immediate look at these events as they unfolded. Under the editorship of the brilliant but tragic John Scott (who was later killed in a duel arising from a literary feud with Blackwood's Magazine), the journal was celebrated for its independent politics and high literary standards.

​Key contents covered in this volume include: The fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, The War of 1812 & Congress of Vienna, ​The Corn Laws, Cultural & Literary Reviews. 

​Binding: Professionally bound in modern half tan calf over marbled paper boards. The spine features raised bands highlighted by elegant blind-tooling, with clean, crisp gilt-lettered titles reading THE CHAMPION and 1814.

​Tax stamps: Red-ink struck British newspaper tax stamps on individual issues (showing the "three pence ha'penny" stamp duty), showing its genuine postal circulation and distribution during the Regency era.

​Condition: The text block remains solid and firmly bound. The title page and early leaves exhibit some age-toning and scattered foxing appropriate for early 19th-century rag paper, but the text remains clear and crisp throughout.