Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art

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Title

Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art

Coverage

Philadelphia

Publisher

John Sartain & Co.

Date

July 1852

Subject

Volume 11, number 1

Description

A well-produced but short-lived monthly published by the noted engraver, John Sartain. This issue contains a three-page contribution entitled “The Iron Horse,” an early magazine printing of Henry David Thoreau’s Transcendentalist masterpiece, Walden, which was published in book format in 1854.