A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1741-1850, Volume I ( 1, One )

Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of the University of Harvard Press, 1970. xviii, 848 pp., blue cloth w/ gold lettering, red & gold decoration; Dust jacket in new clear archival-grade cover; Book shows tape marks to top & bottom edges of boards, though all tape remnants & traces of adhesive have been removed; minor wear to corners of spine & boards; library & "withdrawn" stamps to top & bottom edges of page block, dedication page, bottom margin of 1 page, & rear pastedown; bar code label, due date slip & remnant of card pocket to front endpaper; Jacket shows a little light edgewear w/ some slight rubbing to spine panel & to edge of front flap fold; short closed tear to bottom of rear panel at spine; front flap is price-clipped / "The magazines given separate biographies in this volume are: The American Magazine, or A Monthly View; The Columbian Magazine and The Universal Asylum; The Port Folio; The American Baptist Magazine; The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review; The Panoplist; Nile's Weekly Register; The Analectic Magazine, and The Literary Gazette; Christian Examiner; The American Journal of Science; The Christian Advocate; Atheneum Magazine; The Biblical Repertory, and The Princeton Review; Graham's Magazine, and The Casket; Journal of the Franklin Institute; The Friend; The American Journal of the Medical Sciences; The Spirit of the Pilgrims; Godey's Lady's Book; The New England Magazine (Buckingham's); The Knickerbocker Magazine; Parley's Magazine; The Southern Literary Messenger; The Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review; The Dial (Boston); Merry's Museum; The American Agriculturist; The Bibliotheca Sacra; Littel's Living Age; The Literary World (Duyckinck's)." Illustrated with 39 B&W plates, plus a frontispiece. /. 5th Printing. Hard Cover. Good +/Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.