The Port folio / by Oliver Oldschool, Esq.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Newspaper

Contributor:

Dennie, Joseph, 1768-1812

Dickins, Asbury, 1780-1861

Standardized Title:

Port folio (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1801)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Newspapers.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

Physical Description:

v. : ill. ; 34

Monthly, 1822-1827

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 3, 1801)- ; New ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 11, 1806)-new ser., v. 6, no. 24 (Dec. 10, 1808) ; New ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1809)-new ser., v. 8, no. 6 (Dec. 1812) ; 3rd ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1813)-3rd ser., v. 6, no. 6 (Dec. 1813) ; 4th ser., v. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1816)-

1st ser. ceased in 1805 with v. 5; 4th ser. ceased in 1825 with v. 20; Hall's 2nd ser. began in July 1826 with v. 1 and ceased in Dec. 1827 with v. 2.

Other Title:

Portfolio, and New York monthly magazine Jan.-May 1822

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia [Pa.] : The Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1801-

Notes:

Printed a "For the Country" ed, 1802.

Later published in periodical format.

Founded by Joseph Dennie in connection with Asbury Dickins 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."--Smyth's Philadelphia magazines.

Publisher varies: The Editor & Elizabeth Dickens, Jan. 16, 1802- ; Harrison Hall, 1816-.

Publication suspended Jan.-June 1826 and Jan.-June 1827.

Local Notes:

Library has: v. 1-5 (second edition), (1801-1805). (Hugh Maxwell, printer); n.s., v. 1-6, 1806-08; (John Watts, pr. and pub.; v. 5-6 also titled New Series v. 1-2, pr. and pub., Smith & Maxwell). s.3, v. 1-8, 1809-12. (Bradford & Inskeep pub.; Smith & Maxwell, printers). s. 4, v. 1-6, 1813-15. (Bradsford & Inskeep, pub.; James Maxwell, printer). s. 5, v. 1-20, 1816-25. (Harrison Hall, pub.; J. Maxwell, print.). s. 6 (sub. title: Hall's Second Series), v. 1-2, 1826-27. (Harrison Hall, pub.).

Bound in front is an 1800 prospectus by Dennie for the Portfolio (S & M 9059).

Retrospective conversion record: original entry.

HSP in LCP.

Recon note: Match points differ: microform record

Finding Aid/Index:

Jan. 1816-Dec. 1825, in: 4th ser., v. 20. 64 p.

OCLC:

6594597