[Pennsylvania Magazine]: [Paine, Thomas, editor]:

$45,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE: OR, AMERICAN MONTHLY MUSEUM. MDCCLXXV. VOLUME 1 [JANUARY 1775 TO DECEMBER 1775]. A run of the first twelve issues and the 1775 supplement of The Pennsylvania Magazine..., the only magazine issued in the American colonies for most of the crucial year of 1775. This copy belonged to Revolutionary-era printer Francis Bailey of Philadelphia and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In the latter location Bailey was the printer of the first edition of the Articles of Confederation. The Pennsylvania Magazine is among the most important American Revolutionary-era publications for two primary reasons. First, it was edited from February to July 1775 by the famous radical, Thomas Paine, and his regular occupation, as he was developing Common Sense, was as its editor. Secondly, it contains some of the most significant maps produced in America during the Revolution, including battle plans that became prototypes for oft-reproduced illustrations. Only a small handful of similar maps were produced in America during the Revolution. Ristow describes three of the maps and plans (numbers 8, 9, and 10, below) as "the earliest revolutionary war maps printed in America." The present collection contains the first twelve of the total nineteen issues of The Pennsylvania Magazine, a complete run for the year 1775.The Pennsylvania Magazine was conceived and founded by the Revolutionary printer, Robert Aitken, best known for his work as a printer for the Continental Congress. Aitken launche

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