The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals
One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's. A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.
Local ID: 299
Estimated Value: $400
| Title: | American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science |
| Category: | Literary, Miscellany, Politics |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Date: | January 1845 |
| Published in: | New York, NY |
| American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science – A monthly, initially edited by George H. Colton, founded to advocate ‘the permanent maintenance of Whig principles and the improvement of American Literature.’ It is notable for its promotion of native American literature, its opposition to more radical schools of literature as well as criticism, biographical sketches and first appearances of Edgar Allan Poe, J. R. Lowell and Walt Whitman. The Volume 1 frontispiece engraving is of Henry Clay. | |