Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, Philadelphia, and Inskeep and Bradford, New-York, 1809.
Price: $450.00
Unbound. First edition. Octavo. 11pp., engraved frontispiece plate. Disbound stitched pamphlet. Scattered foxing, outer leaves and plate neatly detached, very good. A particularly scarce copy with an engraved plate, not found in the four other known copies. Founded in 1801 and edited by Joseph Dennie, the weekly *Port Folio* quickly became the most important magazine devoted to literature and politics in the United States. Dennie and his distinguished circle of mostly pro-Federalist contributors were prized for their "liveliness, urbanity, and wit," and frequent attacks upon the Republicans. Dennie issued this prospectus to announce that his magazine would be changed from a weekly to a monthly in 1809: "On the first vernal month, a Phoenix Port Folio rises from the ashes of its predecessor." Interestingly, the engraved plate depicts an Aurora, not a Phoenix. *BAL* 4640. *OCLC* locates five copies.
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