[Rarebooks] FS: Important Early American Periodical, Inscribed by Noah Webster

[Charles Agvent]

[WEBSTER, Noah]. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF HISTORY AND POLITICS... OF
LITERATURE  AND  STATE  PAPERS.  3 volumes, each  SIGNED  by  Webster.
Philadelphia:  Farrand  and  Nicholas 1811-1812.  First  Edition.  The
first  three  volumes of a total of four, containing six of the  eight
issues  published,  of the first standard quarterly review in  America
(Mott,  A HISTORY OF AMERICAN MAGAZINES, Vol. 1, pp. 271-2). Edited by
Robert  Walsh,  this important periodical included commentary on  what
we  now  call the War of 1812 as well as printings of U.S.  government
documents  and essays on books and other subjects. What makes this set
stand  out is that each of the three volumes has been INSCRIBED on the
front  pastedowns  to the Hartford Library Company and SIGNED by  Noah
Webster  as follows: "Presented to H L C/by N Webster." Webster,  born
in  West  Hartford in 1758 and a graduate of Yale, created  the  first
American  textbooks making use of American subject matter. His speller
became  tremendously  successful  and  was  used  into  the  twentieth
century.  In  1828 he published AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE  ENGLISH
LANGUAGE,  the most ambitious publication to date in America.  Between
his  textbooks  and his dictionary, Webster did much to influence  the
standardization  of American spelling and pronunciation. His autograph
is  rather uncommon. Each volume has the Hartford Library  Association
bookplate  on the front pastedown beneath Webster's inscription  and a
Hartford  Public  Library  label and pocket at the rear.  The  binding
consists  of the original boards, but each spine has been covered with
modern  binder's tape with the title and library call numbers  written
on  it.  Internally  clean  with light, even browning  to  text.  Good
                                                               $3500.00
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