Thanks, the revised recipe works perfectly for the current edition. As a token of appreciation I've added a donation.
I was assuming that my next-to-non-existent coding skills would enable me to edit it to shift the index page to previous editions but no such luck.
The address of the contents page for an individual issue takes the form:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n24
Is there any chance of making an alternative script which would parse from a contents page of that form, so that it could be edited manually to download past issues? I tried altering the INDEX variable but just generated a find() error.
Regardless, thanks for the time spent,
Argel