Beschreibung:

The Philadelphia Monthly Magazine, or, Universal Repository of Knowledge and Entertainment.
Philadelphia: Thomas Condie, January to June 1798. Six monthly issues in one, 8vo (205 x 130 mm). Frontispiece portrait of Washington engraved by Houston after Savage, 3 engraved plates (one folding). Index in the rear. Contemporary tree sheep, rebacked to style. Condition : folding plate tissue-backed repairing tears, scattered foxing; rebacked and recased, worn at extremities. Provenance : Thomas Condie (signature on front free endpaper, contemporary bookseller’s ad clipped and laid in); Martin P. Snyder. early philadelphia periodical, with much washingtoniana and two philadelphia views -- signed by the publisher and bookseller. Running through several issues of the first volume of this magazine is an essay titled Memoirs of George Washington. In addition to this early biography are printings of Washington’s 1753 Journal, as well as his Farewell Address and other letters and speeches. Besides the frontispiece of Washington, plates include a portrait of Mrs. Merry, a folding view of the Philadelphia jail and a view of the Statehouse. The engraving of the jail “appeared somewhat in the manner of a broadside, with the picture at the top and the plan below … The new print was far more detailed than any of the several earlier views of the jail…” (Snyder). The view of the Statehouse is derivative (reworked from the same plate?) of an earlier view on the Folie map of 1794. Of notable mention in this run of the magazine is the appearance in the March issue of an early (first?) printing of the lyrics to Francis Hopkinson’s Hail Columbia, America’s first national anthem. Snyder, COI 175 and 176; Evans 34365; Sabin 62019.