The Columbia Magazine, Designed to Promote Evangelical Knowledge and Morality

Hudson NY: Abel Stoddard, 1815. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Early issue of The Columbia Magazine, published in the newly prosperous Hudson, NY, the first city to be incorporated in the United States after independence, located in Columbia County, hence the magazine name. A remarkably unsophisticated copy, as issued, printed paper covers, string-tied, sides uncut, paginated (1), 130 - 160 (1). Includes reports on all conduct of morality: reflections on the new year, gaming, the third commanement; reports on foreign missions; poetry; obituaries (including a report on a fatal duel in Camden NC); and, a proclamation from President Madison. Distributed largely by subscription through N. Elliot in Catskill, NY, Dodge and Sayre New York, E. F. Backus Albany, and clergy in counties of Columbia, Green and Delaware, NY and Berkshire, Massachusetts.