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Title: Five bound volumes of lady's magazines with fashion plates Author: ** Place: Philadelphia Publisher: Date: Description: Including: Everyday Actualities - No. VII-X (January-June, 1853). 572, vi pp. and No. XI-XIV (July-December, 1853). 568, vi pp. Full red leather, gilt-lettered spine. * Everyday Actualities - No. XV-XX (January-June, 1854). 572, vi pp. Period half morocco. * Vol. LI (July-December, 1855). iv, 572 pp. Period half morocco. * Vol. XXVII (July-December, 1843). iv, 288 pp. and Vol. XXVIII (January-June, 1844). iv, 292 pp. Half-calf. Together four octavos, each illustrated with many steel-engraved and woodcut fashion plates, some in color. Also included is one bound volume of Court and Ladies Magazine, United Series Volume III, 1839. 668 pp. Also illustrated by numerous full page engravings, many in color. 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. Lot Amendments Condition: Some dampstaining to the 1853 volume; foxing in all; good to very good. Item number: 195300