Description: The Port Folio Vol. I Third Series — Bound Collection of Six Issues. Volume I January 1813, Volume 1 #2 February, Volume 2 #2 April, Volume 2 #3 September, Volume 2 #5 November, Volume 2 #6 December, 665 pp plus index, Published by Bradford & Inskeep, New York, 1813, half leather, 8.5 x 5.25”, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to tips and spine. Joints abraded with wear to spine ends. Spine flaking slightly with red rot. Boards are toned and scuffed. Previous bookplate has been removed. Ex-library of the New London Society. Foxing throughout with offsetting from plates. Light toning throughout text. Minor instances of age staining. Some small patches of dampness. Occasional marginalia. Binding intact. Please see photos. A collection of fascinating writings, in detail and description, of a new American nation, celebrating its energy, arts, and heroic warriors. Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is listed at 192 pp, George Colman Wit on the Wing listed at 227 pp, descriptions of the Catskills in New York are described in great detail, and a letter from Captain Broke to Captain Lawrence regarding American prisoners at 313pp. Frontispiece of the “View of Coxsackie. Hudson River” with illustrations of US Navy capture of a British warship. Scarce. COLU1813BHJL-623
Price: 250 USD
Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Binding: Half Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Author: Oliver Oldschool
Publisher: Bradford and Inskeep
Topic: Literature
Subject: Poetry
Original/Facsimile: Original
