1819 THE VILLAGER. Rare Short-Lived Literary Periodical - Heterodox Theology, Vampyres, Hermits, etc.

A nice little early 19th century sammelband including the first six issues of the short-lived "The Village" literary paper. It's editor is not known, but has inscribed this copy as the Hermit & Lay Preacher, letting us know the sections issued under those headings were both authored by the periodical's anonymous curator. 

Issue No. 5, included here, includes one of the earliest articles on guitars published in America. 

The Villager, A Literary Paper. 1819. Volume 1. New York. Brockerick & Ritter. 1819. No's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. 

Contents include: Opening "Prospectus" of the Paper; The Hermit; Review of Brutis - Or, the Fall of Tarquin by John Howard Payne; Rosa; First of April all Fools' Day; Original Lines for The Villager; The Hermit - No. II; Easter Day; Liberality of an American Quaker in Paris; Ode to Childhood; Schools among the Seneca at Onondago Village; The Lay Preacher; For the Villager [on the evils of grasping after wealth]; Colonel Ponsonby of the 12th Dragoons; Painting on Glass; Algerine Slavery; Remarkable Sagacity of the Ant; The Hermit - No. III; The Soldier's Return [for the Villager]; Lay Preacher No. II; Account of the Plague at Malta; The Harp and Spanish Guitar; Publication notices of Vampyre by Lord Byron [Vampire - Dracula]; Small Pox in Belfast, MA; Lay Preacher No III; On the Desire of Obtaining the Esteem of the Good; A Mechanical Genius [on the astronomical clock by Rev. Hahn]; Works Written in Prison; Publication Notice of The Black Vampyre; etc. 

BOUND WITH

Prescott, William Hickling [ed.]. The Club-Room. No. III. April, 1820. Boston. T. Swan. 1820. 

Contents include: The Sea of the Poets; Sequel to Recollections; Travels; The Memorial of Sundry Aggrieved English Words; The Vale of Alleriot; Julietta Romeoni.

BOUND WITH

Waln, Robert. American Bards. A Satire. Philadelphia. Published for the Author by M. Thomas and by Haly and Thomas, New York. 1820. 80pp.

A good copy, bound in half leather with the boards detached, generally solid, with light to moderate foxing.