The Select circulating library. : Containing the best popular literature, including memoirs, biography, novels, tales, travels, voyages, &c.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Waldie, Adam, 1792?-1842, publisher.

Waldie, Adam, 1792?-1842, editor.

A. Waldie & Co., publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Periodicals.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

5 numbers a month <1840-1841>

Ceased in 1842. Cf. ULS.

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1, 1832)-

Other Title:

Waldie's select library

Waldies select circulating library

Waldie's select circulating library

Waldie's select circulating library, and journal of polite literature <Jan. 6, 1841-Dec. 1841>

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Pa.]: : Printed and published by Adam Waldie, no. 6, North Eighth Street., 1832-

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Publisher: A. Waldie & Co. <1841>.

Title from volume title page.

Publication was suspended in 1840, after six numbers had been issued, and was resumed in 1841.

An unnumbered, undated specimen number was issued probably in 1834 (as evinced from internal evidence).

The printed wrappers contain "The Journal of belles lettres, embracing three to four pages of addition new matter, will be given every week as an accompaniment ..." This was also issued separately "on fine white paper ... to non-subscribers to the 'Library,' at two dollars per annum if paid in advance, or three dollars at the end of the year." The Journal of belles lettres was also issued with the reprint and the octavo editions.

Includes separately issued supplement: Waldie's journal of polite literature. This was absorbed into the main publication <Jan. 6, 1841> and became an unpaged section at the beginning of the Select ciculating library.

"The Port folio, and companion to the the select circulating library" was issued as a separate publication.

A notice in v. 1, no. 16, states that "the first thirteen numbers are entirely exhausted, but a new series, no. 1, was commenced with the Sarrans' Memoirs (Jan. 15, 1833)". The contents and typesetting are identical with the numbers of the same dates of the original series. The only differentiation is the designation "new series" on the covers and the numbering of the issues. (New ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 15, 1833)-v. 1, no. 26 (July 9, 1833) corresponds to the original series, v. 1, no. 14 (Jan. 15, 1833)-v. 2, no. 13 (July 9, 1833): new ser., v. 2, no. 1 (July 16, 1833)-v. 2, no. 26 (Jan. 7, 1834) to v. 2, no. 14 (July 16, 1833)-v. 2, no. 39 (Jan. 7, 1834)). Issued also in annual compilations; also issued in a smaller (octavo) format with title: Waldie's octavo library.

Local Notes:

American Antiquarian Society copy 3 is Waldies journal of polite literature and the combined Waldie's select circulating library and journal of polite literature pages, 1840-1841 Wrappers from 1838-1839 also bound in this volume, in reverse order.

American Antiquarian Society copy 2 is wrappers bound in a separate volumes. The specimen number is bound with the 1832 copies of the wrapers.

Has Supplement:

Journal of belles lettres

Waldie's journal of polite literature

Port folio, and companion to the Select circulating library

OCLC:

1673440

Access Restriction:

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