Another Early Pennsylvania Legal Periodical: Journal of Jurisprudence (1821)

Authors

• Joel Fishman

Document Type

Article

Abstract

In 1821, John Hall published the Journal of Jurisprudence, "a new series of The American Law Journal." It is sometimes cited under the former title or as volume seven of the American Law Journal^l that was the first law periodical published in the United States. The new volume had 542 pages, divided into three issues of 136, 136, and 270 pages. Mathew Carey & Son, one of the leading Philadelphia printers of early, nineteenth-century Philadelphia,² was the printer of the Journal. In antebellum Pennsylvania, Philadelphia served as a major printing center,³ hosting a number of Irish emigres that became book sellers, printers, and book publishers of legal materials, such as Mathew Carey,⁴ John Bioren,⁵ and Patrick Byrne.⁶ These individuals were followed by notable book companies like T. & J. W. Johnson Co. and Kay & Brother.

Repository Citation

Fishman, J. (2010). Another Early Pennsylvania Legal Periodical: Journal of Jurisprudence (1821). Unbound - An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books, 3. Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/163