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New York: Carlton & Phillips, 1858. Hardcover. Good. Magazine. A complete set of the entire run of monthly issues from July 1852-December 1858, bound in 13 mostly half calf or full leather volumes. Octavos. Illustrated with wood-engravings. The *National Magazine* was an eclectic and lively journal known for its wide ranging articles encompassing American biography and geography, diverse religious enthusiasms and metaphysical speculations, political reform, exotic birds and animals, and exotic foreign travel. William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, and many other important contemporary American literary figures are featured in its pages. Among the articles on religion are many that focus on New England transcendentalism and mystical Christianity, and the travel articles most often feature exotic places and peoples in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Asia, including arctic explorations. The magazine serialized many articles over several months. These…
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New-York: Carlton & Phillips, [December] 1852. Very Good original excision. Brief article titled, "Alchemy and the Alchemists" which primarily addresses Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Jacob Boehme in the body of this sewn section along with work on Boas, Southey, Samuel Johnson, and other interests. This eclectic monthly was begun in New York in 1852 by the Methodist Church with the aim of presenting the attractions of Harper's without those "morbid appeals to the passions" to be found in fiction. It included departments of religious and literary news and was illustrated by woodcuts. Four double columned pages.
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The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Volumes 1-13 (1852-1858)
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