Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The Port folio / by Oliver Oldschool, Esq.
Call Number
Oversize Lapidus 5.2339q
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc41687t68h
Publisher
[Philadelphia, Pa.] : Published at Philadelphia, 1802.
Language
English
Date Created
1802
Extent
volumes : illustrations ; 34 cm
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2021.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from volume title page.
Title page for vol. 2 (1802) noted in two variants. This one, printed in the new set of type: The Port Folio, by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Vol. II--1802. [Three lines from Cowper] Published at Philadelphia; and the other, printed in the old set of type: The Port Folio. By Oliver Oldschool, Esq. [Three lines from Cowper] Vol. II--For 1802. Philadelphia: Printed by H. Maxwell, and sold by William Fry, no. 25, North Second-Street, opposite Christ-Church., 1802.
Founded by Joseph Dennie in connection with Asbury Dickens [sic] and ed. by Dennie until 1812. The editors ... from the death of Dennie until 1827, when the magazine finally ceased, were Paul Allen, Nicholas Biddle, Dr. Charles Caldwell, Thomas Cooper, Judge Workman, John Elihu Hall, and his three brothers. Cf. Smyth's Philadelphia magazines.
"Printed for the editor & Elizabeth Dickins. Published, for the country, at no. 25, North-Second Street; and for the city, by William Fry, no. 36, Chestnut-Street. From the press of Hugh Maxwell, Columbia House."--Colophon, vol. 2, no.2 (Jan. 16, 1802).

Discovery Information

Subject
Literature—History and criticism—Periodicals
Poetry—Periodicals
Re-issues

Physical Characteristics

File Count
41

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
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