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Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine - 2 bound volumes
Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine - 2 bound volumes
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Heading: (Godey's Lady's Book)
Author: Hale, Mrs. Sarah J. & Louis A. Godey, editors
Title: Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine - 2 bound volumes
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Louis A. Godey
Date Published: Various dates
Description:


Includes: Vol. XL (Jan-June 1850); Vol. XLI (July-Dec 1850); Vol. LXXII (Jan-June 1866); Vol. LXXIII (July-Dec. 1866). Profusely illustrated with engravings in steel & wood, many color, including numerous folding hand-colored steel-engraved fashion plates. (8vo) 23x14 cm (9½x5¾"), period morocco with elaborate decorations in gilt, gilt spines.



Two handsomely bound volumes. Bound in at the rear of the earlier volume is an issue of Graham's Magazine from August, 1850, featuring a long article on the death of William Wordsworth. The later volume with the blindstamp of fine bookbinders Walker & Sons. Both volumes with the owners' names (E.F. Johnson and Mrs. Mary Ferris) gilt stamped on the front covers. The Godey's Lady's book was a monthly journal published from 1830 to 1898. Provides an important source of information for nineteenth-century American history, social history, women's studies, material culture and literature. Includes much on women's fashion, textiles and patterns used for women's clothing, essays, book reviews, how-to articles, biographical sketches, history and travel articles, poetry, and more.

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Some wear to bindings with rubbing to extremities, sunning to spine of later volume; 1850 volume with 2 leaves detached but present, some offsetting, scattered foxing, occasional small chips or closed tears to page or plate edges; overall very good.
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