Accession number
PML 198789
Published
Philadelphia : Printed by Mathew Carey, M,DCC,LXXXVIII [1788]
Credit line
Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund, 2022.
Notes
Published monthly from January 1787 through December 1792.
Volume III, Numbers I-VI of twelve volumes (72 monthly issues).
Bound, octavo (in 4s). Vol. III, Numb. I, [2], iii-xvi, [1], 18-104; Vol III., Numb. II, [3], 108-199; Vol III, Numb. III [4], 204-287; Vol. III, Numb. IV [4], 292-391; Vol. III, Numb. V [4], 396-496; Vol. III, Numb. VI, [5], 500-603, [1].
Includes "Subscribers Names" and "Preface" (in Vol. III, Numb. I), printed "Extract of a letter from his Excellency General George Washington to the printer of the American Museum, Mount Vernon, June 25, 1788" (in Vol. III, Numb. V), "Index to the Third Volume" and a note "To Correspondents" at end.
Pages 209-272 misnumbered as pages 109-172.
Text printed in double columns.
One engraved illustration of "Orion's Sword" in Orion (constellation) in on page 214 (misnumbered 114).
Mathew Carey employed a Black American pressman in printing the magazine ("The Autobiography of Mathew Carey," in New England Magazine, Letter IV, Dec. 7, 1833, pages 63-67).
Volume III, Numbers I-VI of twelve volumes (72 monthly issues).
Bound, octavo (in 4s). Vol. III, Numb. I, [2], iii-xvi, [1], 18-104; Vol III., Numb. II, [3], 108-199; Vol III, Numb. III [4], 204-287; Vol. III, Numb. IV [4], 292-391; Vol. III, Numb. V [4], 396-496; Vol. III, Numb. VI, [5], 500-603, [1].
Includes "Subscribers Names" and "Preface" (in Vol. III, Numb. I), printed "Extract of a letter from his Excellency General George Washington to the printer of the American Museum, Mount Vernon, June 25, 1788" (in Vol. III, Numb. V), "Index to the Third Volume" and a note "To Correspondents" at end.
Pages 209-272 misnumbered as pages 109-172.
Text printed in double columns.
One engraved illustration of "Orion's Sword" in Orion (constellation) in on page 214 (misnumbered 114).
Mathew Carey employed a Black American pressman in printing the magazine ("The Autobiography of Mathew Carey," in New England Magazine, Letter IV, Dec. 7, 1833, pages 63-67).
Description
xvi, [18]-604 ; 22 cm
Provenance
Signature of Joseph Bloomfield (1753-1823), fourth governor of New Jersey, also listed as a subscriber to the magazine, found on Vol. III, Numb. I, Vol. III, Numb. III, and Vol. III, Numb. VI.
Binding
Quarter calf with marbled paper on boards.
Classification
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