Willis’s Current Notes, edited by George Willis. London: G. Willis. Began with: no. 1 (Jan. 1851); ceased with: no. 84 (Dec. 1857). LCCN: 10014297.
From an 1884 auction catalogue:
This valuable magazine mainly consists of articles on Antiquities, Biography, Heraldry, History, Language, Literature, Natural History, Topography, etc., selected from original letters and documents addressed to the editor, who was a man of considerable literary attainments — see Allibone’s “Dictionary of Authors,” article “George Willis,” p. 2756. It contains many unpublished letters of Sir W. Scott, Coleridge, Byron, Theodore Hook, etc., and an immense number of curious inedited articles on Literature and Antiquities by eminent literary men. George Willis was at one time a partner of Henry Sotheran, of London, the compiler’s uncle and the head of the large publishing and bibliopolistic firm of Henry Sotheran and Co., of London and Manchester, England. In No. XL., p. 32, Mr. Willis makes the following allusion to Lawrence Sterne’s Library in connection with his partner’s great-uncle, Henry Sotheran:–”No sooner was he [Sterne] dead than his widow, to raise means, sold his books to Todd and Sotheran, booksellers at York and their shop catalogue, printed in 1768, ostentatiously announced in the title, it contained ‘the library of Lawrence Sterne M.A., Prebendary of York, and author of “Tristram Shandy.”‘” This Henry Sotheran was a son of the Lord of the Manor of Oswaldkirk, Yorkshire–vide Joseph Foster’s “County Families of Yorkshire”–and was the father of the Henry Sotheran of York who is given in Allibone’s valuable work as the author of a work on that city published in 1796.–C. S.
I have blanket clearance for entire run. I think we have the entire set of seven, but I can’t seem to find volume 1 (yet).
Volume Bookp(h)iles:
Volume 1 1851
Volume 2 1852
Volume 3 1853
Volume 4 1854
Volume 5 1855
Volume 6 1856
Volume 7 1857