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: 5012

Estimated Value: $200

Title:  Waldie’s Port Folio; Companion to the Select Circulating Library
Category:  Literary
Volume:  1-2
Issue:  2
Date:  January 1835 – December 1836
Published in:  Philadelphia, PA
 A semimonthly reprint journal based on “Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal”; issued as a companion to “Select Circulating Library” (277), subtitled ‘comibining essay, original and selected, on science, arts, and literature; biographical illustrations; instructive and amusing incidents, tales, music, poetry, &c.’. Contents include a few original articles of interesting Americana and a reprint of Timothy Flint’s “Sketches of the Literature of the United States”.