THE HESPERIAN; OR WESTERN MONTHLY MAGAZINE [later:] THE HESPERIAN; A MONTHLY MISCELLANY OF GENERAL LITERATURE, ORIGINAL AND SELECT.

[Ohio Periodical]: Gallagher, William D., and Otway Curry [editors]:

Published by Columbus [later:] Cincinnati: John D. Nichols, 1838–9.

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A complete run of this short-lived Ohio periodical, edited by Gallagher and Otway, the first two volumes published from Columbus, the third from Cincinnati. An important Ohio magazine, intended to "place the literature and culture of the Ohio Valley on a par with those of the east." "Aside from science, economics and education, and selected and original literature and reviews, it is now most important for its articles on early Western culture and exploration, including a lengthy original serial entitled 'Notes on Texas' by 'a gentleman from Ohio'" - Lomazow. "Among its most important contributors of original material were William Gilmore Simms, C.P. Cranch, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Amelia B. Welby, and J.F. Meline. A critical department was occupied chiefly with the slender output of the litertuere f the frontier, though it occasionally noticed other and more widely circulated books" - Mott. "Vol. 3, containing six monthly parts (June Dec., 1839) is quite scarce in a complete state. No number.was issued for May, 839, on account of the time lost in the removal of the work from Columbus to Cincinnati. This is probably the best of all the early western periodicals; it contains many original papers relating to the West, and numbered among its contributors the ablest writers of the western community" - Thomson. The OCLC record implies that the break in pagination in volume 2 is common to other copies. LOMAZOW A359. MOTT, I:692-3. CHIELENS I:171-5. THOMSON 547. OCLC 950903782. STREETER SALE 4188. SABIN 31615. Large octavo. Neatly bound in gilt lettered library buckram. Ex-library, with stamps and deaccession stamps to titlepage and occasional text pages, foxed. Lacks the index in final volume. Good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE HESPERIAN; OR WESTERN MONTHLY MAGAZINE [later:] THE HESPERIAN; A MONTHLY MISCELLANY OF GENERAL LITERATURE, ORIGINAL AND SELECT.
• Publisher: Columbus [later:] Cincinnati: John D. Nichols, 1838 9.
• Edition: 1st Edition