The American museum, or repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, &c. prose and poetical. For July 1787. Vol II. Numb. I.

Philadelphia: printed by Mathew Carey, 1787. 8vo, pp. 103, [1]; stitched, as issued; paper a bit toned, else very good. Ownership signature of Sarah Potts, November 3, 1791 on the title page. Three male Potts are in the subscriber list (Stacey, David and Joseph), but not Sarah. Carey's American Museum was the most comprehensive American magazine of the eighteenth century, printing political tracts, foreign correspondence and news, poetry and prose. This issue is dedicated to the Marquis de La Fayette and includes a 7-page article "Remarks and Facts relative to the American Paper Money," by Benjamin Franklin, written in London, 1764; and several other (truncated) articles on money and its relationship to the newly founded Republic; also, includes a letter from Thomas Jefferson to David Ramsey dated Paris, Oct. 27, 1786; and poems by Jonathan Trumbull, an account of a waterspout and an account of the life and death of Edward Drinker, purportedly by Benjamin Rush. A lengthy list of subscribers includes George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Edmund Randolph, Timothy Pickering, William Bradford, John Dunlap, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and many other prominent names of the day. (Inventory #: 66431)