The Knickerbacker, or New-York Monthly Magazine

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Title

The Knickerbacker, or New-York Monthly Magazine

Coverage

New York

Publisher

Peabody & Co.

Date

January 1833

Subject

Volume 1, number 1

Description

Knickerbocker Magazine (the name assumed after the first issue) was the distinctive product of its influential editor, Lewis Gaylord Clark, for three decades. It was a veritable guidebook to New York sensibilities, with a venerable stable of contributors that included Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, and James Fenimore Cooper.