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: 3293
Estimated Value: $600
| Title: | North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal |
| Category: | Literary, Miscellany |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Date: | May 1815 |
| Published in: | Boston, MA |
| A scholarly, provincial, dignified, frequently ponderous but highly important literary journal conceived and originally edited by William Tudor. It was appreciated as the most intellectual magazine in America and was the first to achieve an international reputation. The issue for September 1817 contains the first printing of “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant, the first great American poem. It contains many important contributions by Bryan, as well as significant appearances of Lowell, Emerson and Longfellow. Mott II: 218 – 261; Chielens I: 289 – 300; Kribbs 641; Edgar 156; Nourie: pp. 333 – 339. | |