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: 5235
Estimated Value: $2,000
| Title: | Yankee and Boston Literary Gazette |
| Category: | Literary |
| Volume: | 2 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Date: | September 1829 |
| Published in: | Boston, MA |
| This issue contains the first periodical appearance of Edgar Allen Poe, consisting of a paragraph of criticism and two stanzas of poetry. This followed only the legendarily rare book, “Tamerlane” (1827), which was not published, and two poems published under his brother’s name in 1827 in “North American, or Weekly Journal of Politics, Science and Literature”. Robertson I: 198 – 199; II: 67 – 72. | |