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Parley's magazine.

Accession number
PML 83437, 84050-56, 85159, 85
Published
Boston : Lilly, Wait and Co., 1833-1844.
Notes
Also issued in quarterly parts and annual volumes, printed from the same stereotype plates.
Distributed at various times by the following: Baltimore: J. Anderson, William & Joseph Neal, Richards & Sons, P.N. Wood & Co. Buffalo, N.Y.: T. & M. Butler. Cincinnati: H.S. and H.L. Barnum. Kingston, Upper Canada: J. McFarlane & Co. New Orleans: Charles H. Bancroft. New York: J.P. Callender, Collins & Hannay, Mahlon Day, Goodrich and Wiley, John Wiley. Philadelphia: T.T. Ash, John M. Gummey, Adam Waldie. Portland: Colman & Chisholm, Colman, Holden & Co. Providence: Marshall & Brown, C. Shepard. Quebec: Neilson & Cowan. Richmond: Richard D. Sanxay. Rochester, N.Y.: C. & M. Morse. Washington: Duff Green.
Library holdings: v. 1, 1833: pts. 1-2 (PML 84050, 84051, 84054, with variant t.p.); v. 2, 1834: pts. 1, 3, 4, annual (PML 84052, 84053, 84055, 85174); v. 4, 1836: pt. 1 (whole no. 13) (84056); v.5-6, 1837-8: (PML 85159, 83437).
Many of the engravings are by Alexander Anderson.
On verso of t.p., v. 5, 1837: Stereotyped at Geo. A. and J. Curtis's Type & Stereotype Foundry.
Publisher changes. In 1834, Samuel Colman succeeded Lilly, Wait & Co. Between 1834 and 1835, Charles S. Francis and Joseph H. Francis, of New York and Boston, purchased the magazine. Library copy of v. 2, annual compilation for l834-5, has 2 t.p., the first for Francis and Francis, and the second for Colman. See also F.L. Mott, History of American magazines, v. 1, pp. 622-623.
Several parts have advertisements for the principal publishers.
Started by Samuel G. Goodrich. See his Recollections, v.2, p. 543.
Description
12 v. : ill., music ; 18 cm
Provenance
Inscriptions: Charlotte A. Lawrence, Watson A. Lawrence, Mary T. Lawrence, Emma A. Lawrence, S.J.H. Pool, S.E. Nichols.
Binding
Original printed boards, paper or cloth spines; annual volumes in 1/2 or 1/4 leather, marbled or cloth boards.
Classification
Department