THE AMERICAN MUSEUM, OR, UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE, containing, essays on agriculture - commerce - manufactures - politics - morals - and manners. Sketches of national characters - natural and civil history - and biography. Law information-public papers - intelligence. Moral tales - ancient and modern poetry. v. 1-[12] Jan. 1787-Dec. 1792. Philadelphia, Printed by Mathew Carey.

12 v. illus., plates, map. monthly.

Title varies: 1787-1788, The American Museum; or, Repository of Ancient and Modern Fugitive Pieces, &c. Prose and Poetical.

Mathew Carey, editor.

One of the first successful American magazines. The first half of the run consisted of reprints of Revolutionary pamphlets and belles-lettres. Beginning in 1790, original short fiction and poetry made up a large part of the contents.

APS I, Reels 4 and 5