Disbound issue of The Royal American Magazine for April 1774, 38 pages, 6 x 9.5, printed in Boston by and for Isaiah Thomas, featuring a masthead woodcut done by Paul Revere. The illustration is flanked by the text “The Royal American Magazine” above and “or Universal Repository of Instruction and Amusement” below. Image features two figures in an outdoor scene. The vignette is surrounded by a Chippendale style border. To the left, seated, is an allegory of America as a Native American, bare-chested with a feather skirt. In her right hand is a bow, and in her left a fan of feathers and a calumet pipe. At her feet is a quiver with arrows. Behind her is a bush. Standing in front of her is an allegory of a woman, the Genius of Knowledge, in robes holding a small vase; she is pointing her finger upwards. In very good to fine condition, with scattered light foxing, creasing to corners, and frontispiece portrait of Samuel Adams missing.
