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As I said, I haven't seem them all, but the Harper's Weeklies I've seen from the 1800s were all the large size. A lot of non-sport collectors collect Harper's so someone out there probably has an answer. Perhaps Harper's published more than one different magazine, and you saw a different magazine with Harper's in the title. That's just speculation on my part.

I've long heard that Harper's was reprinted, but know little about the reprints including which issues were reprinted. I've read that newspapers sometimes re-issued special editions-- ala the first ever issue--, but rarely the whole run of issues. For all I know, Harper's re-issued/reprinted only a few issues and not the entire run.

If someone here were to compile the info it would make a nice article. As I said, I've heard and read only fuzzy references about the issues and its reprints, but have yet to come across concrete issues, dates and sizes. If some wrote and published a detailed article online, I'm sure it would be read, referenced and quoted many times. The research may simply be interviewing the periodical experts and collectors who know the info and putting it down on paper. A standard reference book I once read said, "None of this information is new, but this is the first time its all been put in a single book."