Dwight's American magazine, and family newspaper: with numerous illustrative and ornamental wood engravings, for the diffusion of useful knowledge and moral and religious principles. / Edited by Theodore Dwight.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866, editor.

Series:

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society.

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society

Standardized Title:

Dwight's American magazine, and family newspaper (New York, N.Y. : 1847)

Language:

English

Genre:

Re-issues (Publishing)

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1847.

Centerpieces (Designs) (Binding)

Relief prints.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Frequency unknown

Other Title:

American penny magazine

American penny magazine, and family newspaper Feb. 15, 1845-Dec. 26, 1846

Dwight's American magazine Jan. 2, 1846 [i.e. 1847]-Dec. 25, 1847

Dwight's American penny magazine

Place of Publication:

New York [New York]: : [publisher not identified], 1847.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

This weekly miscellany was a major rival for Sear's New Pictorial Family Magazine and sold for three cents. Its contents included a juvenile department, poetry, literary notices, recipes, biography, news and articles on geography and travel, archaeology, botany, and zoology. Wood engravings served for illustration. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Vol. 3, no. 1 (Jan. 2, 1847) incorrectly dated Jan. 2, 1846.

A compilation re-issue of three consecutive weekly periodical titles originally published Feb. 8, 1845-Dec. 25, 1847: Dwight's American magazine and family newspaper; American penny magazine and family newspaper and Dwight's American magazine. Also reissued in monthly compilations.

OCLC:

1042243395

Access Restriction:

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