This Niles' Weekly Register volume covers the period from September 1815 to March 1816 and is nearly complete with 25 (of 26) issues, a supplement to issue #22, an addendum, and 192-page supplement (that cost an additional $1.00 at the time). It lacks issue #21 (January 20, 1816) which was never bound into the volume.

Several issues cover the Mexican Revolution which includes Henry Perry’s call for recruits to wrest Texas from the Royalists and President’s Madison’s Proclamation in response outlawing assistance to his venture (p. 33). Perry had fought at New Orleans and was in the Army when he decided to support the Mexican revolutionaries. His band was defeated at La Bahia, Texas where he apparently took his own life rather than surrendering. Other articles cover the Barbary pirates, Indian affairs, the Floridas, and an article documenting the good deal the government made in buying Thomas Jefferson’s library which doubled the size of the Library of Congress. The Supplement includes the background of Francis Scott Key’s poem, here called Defence of Fort McHenry, along with the poem itself. Signed in ink on the title page “Wm Clark’s Book.” Hardbound in quarter leather with tips over marbled boards.

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Condition: B

Contents have light to occasionally moderate toning and scattered foxing. Pages 29-32 of the supplement are torn along the edge with slight loss. Binding is worn and the covers are nearly detached.