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Title: The Port Folio, A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to Useful Science, the Liberal Arts, Legitimate Criticism, and Polite Literature; Conducted by Oliver Oldschool. - New Series, Volumes 5 and 6 Author: Dennie, Joseph, editor Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Bradford & Inskeep Date: 1811 Description: 2 volumes bound in 1. 546; 622, [2] pp. 2 engraved title pages numerous engraved plates, views, etc.(8vo) 21x13 cm (8¼x5¼") quarter calf and marbled boards red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. Dennie's Port Folio was one of the leading literary and political magazines in the United States at the start of 19th century. Begun in 1801, the periodical was particularly critical of the administration of Thomas Jefferson and Dennie was charged with seditious libel after publishing a particularly scathing attack on Jeffersonian democracy, ("A democracy is scarcely tolerable at any period of national history. Its omens are always sinister, and its powers are unpropitious..."), a charge of which he was acquitted. Provenance: Greg & Jeanine Newman Lot Amendments Condition: Fair amount of wear and rubbing to binding, some chips to spine and joints; hinges starting, foxing to endpapers, some darkening to text block, occasional closed tears and chips to edges of pages and plates, a handful of pages and a plate toward the rear with pieces torn from bottom corners, 3 leaves with some loss to text, scattered dampstaining; good. Item number: 284506a