Boston Weekly Magazine
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The Boston Weekly Magazine (1802-1808) of Boston
Boston
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, Massachusetts
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, was established by Gilbert & Dean
Gilbert & Dean
Gilbert & Dean was a banking and publishing firm in Boston, Massachusetts, run by Samuel Gilbert and Thomas Dean in the early 19th-century...

 in 1802, "devoted to morality, literature, biography, history, the fine arts, agriculture, &c." Joshua Belcher, Samuel T. Armstrong
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, Oliver C. Greenleaf, and Susanna Rowson
Susanna Rowson
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were also affiliated with its production. The magazine ceased in 1808.

Further reading

  • Boston Weekly Magazine. Boston: Gilbert & Dean. v.1 (1802-1803); v.2 (1803-1804); v.3 (1804-1805).
  • Rollo G. Silver. Belcher & Armstrong Set up Shop: 1805. Studies in Bibliography, Vol. 4, (1951/1952), pp. 201-204
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