Prospectus for a magazine which was never published
The casket, or flowers of literature, wit and sentiment. 1829, no. 1
Phildelphia: Samuel Coate Atkinson, January, 1829. 8vo, pp. 48; frontispiece portrait of Lafayette signed "C.G. Childs sc. on steel", 1 other plate showing 2 woodcuts; original printed front wrapper, back wrapper perished; edges curled, the usual short tears in the foremargin (no loss of any letterpress); all else quite good. The magazine started in 1825 and eventually morphed into Graham's American Monthly Magazine. See Mott, American Magazines, Vol. I where a whole chapter is devoted to The Casket. Item #54188
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