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.

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Local ID: 1691

Estimated Value: $100

Title: General Magazine and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations
Category: 18th Century
Volume: 1 (Facsimile)
Issue: 1-6
Date: January – June 1741
Published in: Philadelphia, PA
America’s second magazine, edited by Benjamin Franklin. This is a presentation copy of a fascimile edition published for The Facsimile Text Society by the Columbia University Press in 1938, with a bibliographical note by Lyon N. Richardson. Original copies are essentially unobtainable. Mott I: 76 – 77; Kribbs 293; Richardson: pp. 17 – 26, 29 – 35; Smyth 24, 26 – 27; Evans 4722; Albaugh 369.