(PERIODICALS) [Webster Noah; editor] The American Magazine

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(PERIODICALS.) [Webster, Noah; editor.] The American Magazine. Volume I, issues 1 through 12 (all published). 9-880 pages. 8vo, contemporary 1/4 calf, worn; lacking 17 leaves, 2 leaves detached, a few others defective, lacking all 4 plates, moderate wear and foxing. New York: Samuel Loudon, December 1787 to November 1788

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A monthly offering of "original and other valuable essays in prose and verse." Webster's review of the Federalist appears on page 260 of the March 1788 issue; an English essay titled "Negro Slavery" appears on pages 377-381 of the May 1788 issue. "If it were not for the brevity of its file, the American would rank with any of the eighteenth century American magazines as an interpreter of its times"--Mott, American Magazines, page 107. Evans 20925; Lomazow 21. We trace no others at auction since Swann sold another bound run on 17 November 1977, lot 11.