Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 395

Price Realized: $ 330
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
NORTH-AMERICAN REVIEW and Miscellaneous Journal. 23 volumes, I through XXIII complete. 8vo, contemporary uniform 1/2 calf, minor wear; intermittent foxing, Volume VIII lacks collective title, Volume XXIII lacks rear free endpaper; Edward Patterson bookplates on some front pastedowns. Boston, 1815-26
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The North American Review was founded in 1815 under the editorship of William Tudor, with an emphasis on American history and literature. It was an important force in American culture from the beginning, and survives today as America's oldest literary magazine. Perhaps its most important contribution in its early years was the first appearance of William Cullen Bryant's poem "Thanatopsis" in the September 1817 issue. Each of the first 13 issues begins with review essays on books on colonial America, forming a very early bibliography of Americana. Other contributors from this period include John Adams (November 1816), Lemuel Shaw on "Slavery and the Missouri Question" (January 1820), and a long review essay by Lewis Cass on the American Indians (January 1826). Historian Jared Sparks served as editor in 1817 and 1818. "A scholarly, provincial, dignified, ponderous, but highly important literary journal . . . appreciated as the most intellectual magazine in America"--Lomazow 122.