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: 4864
Estimated Value: $300
| Title: | Union Magazine of Literature and Art |
| Category: | Literary |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Date: | July 1847 |
| Published in: | New York, NY |
| Founded by Israel Post, its name was derived from the American Art-union. ‘Embellished with the finest steel, mezzotint, and wood engravings, music, and colored fashions’.. It competed with “Graham’s” (404), “Godey’s” (459), “Peterson’s” (425), and “Snowden’s” (451). It was bought be the famous engraver, John Sartain, in 1848 and contains six Poe contributions from 1848 – 1850, including “Annabel Lee” in January 1850. Also, v. 1, octavo. Listed in ULS and after v. 3 as “Sartain’s union Magazine”, which was published in Philadelphia. | |
Dear Dr. Lomaz,
I have written previously asking if you could provide permission to reproduce the July 1847 cover of The Union Magazine in my book America’s Paper Money: A Canvas for an Emerging Nation to be published by the Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. It is an important example of the crossover of imagery in banknotes and popular magazine at mid-century.
My book is ready to go to layout and I would be grateful if you could grant permission and provide a digital TIF image.
Thank you again.
William Pressly
Professor Emeritus
University of Maryland, College Park