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: 10296
Estimated Value: $10,000
| Title: | Freeholder’s Magazine or Monthly Chronicle of Liberty by a Patriotic Society |
| Category: | Revolutionary War, 18th Century |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 1-6 |
| Date: | March 1770 – August 1770 |
| Published in: | London, England |
| Complete volume with all engravings intact. The May issue features the engraving of the Boston Massacre accompanied by a seven page description of the event (pages 136-141) The engraving is taken from the earlier Henry Pelham engraving as opposed to the more famous re-engraving by Paul Revere. It is original to this magazine and the only contemporary image known without the dog in the foreground. “The third English printing of the Massacre plate is in The Freeholder’s Magazine for May, 1770, London, printed for Isaac Fell, opposite page 136, accompanied by a six-page article giving an account of the massacre. The print, which is newly engraved, follows the Dilly print [published as the frontis to the London edition of The Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre] carefully. There are minor differences…. The outstanding difference is the omission of the nonchalant dog in the foreground, the only instance in contemporaneous prints where this prominent animal is omitted.” (Brigham, p. 70) | |
Hello to you Dr Lomazow,
I am working on The Thomas Chatterton Manuscript Project and wonder if you would be kind enough to supply me with an image of page 293 of the August section of the 1770 Freeholder’s Magazine.
The specific article is ‘To Lord N—h’ [To Lord North]. It might stretch beyond page 293 but ends with the signature ‘T.C.’
The address of my website is: https://www.thomaschatterton.com/
I started the Chatterton Manuscript Project (a personal, altruistic endeavour) a few years ago, hoping to have it ready for the 250th anniversary of Chatterton’s death in 2020, and to coincide with the commemorations in Bristol – but the pandemic put paid to that.
I should mention that I too collect periodicals, usually with some printing of Chatterton’s works. This includes The Gentleman’s Magazine; European Magazine; Town and Country Magazine; The London Magazine; The Gospel Magazine; etc., mainly from the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
The website is free access to all, without advertising or shopping or any other things of that sort.
Sincerely,
Richard Fenlon (pen name on the website: QE!)