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The Lady's Monthly Museum or polite repository of amusement and instruction; Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the fancy, interest the mind or exalt the character of the British fair. Vol XII Jan-June & XIII July-Dec new series improved
by A Society of Ladies
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Proprietors. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1812. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 clean hardbacks tightly bound in half leather with marbled boards with gilt titles on a red background, boards and leather are lightly rubbed at edges, no inscriptions. Colour illustrations on plates of fashion designs 1 or 2 per month. Black & white plates of the woman featiured in the first article as frontispiece to each month, index. Vol XII: damp marks on endpapers and first 4 and last 8 pages, iv + 356 pages, pages 295 - 300 excised (poems of May issue) & a rear endpaper has been partially torn out. Colour plates: May head and hat cut from one model and June plates excised. Black & white plates all present. Vol XIII: damp marks on endpapers, iv + 352 + iv pages. Colour plates: August head and hat cut from one model, Nov & Dec 1 plate excised from each. Black & white plates: July (Signora Berinotti Radicati) & Sept (Miss Bellchambers) excised. Contain biographies, poetry, anecdotes, theatre reviews and the Mirror of fashion, some designs credited to Mrs Osgood .
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- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66177
- Title
- The Lady's Monthly Museum or polite repository of amusement and instruction; Being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the fancy, interest the mind or exalt the character of the British fair. Vol XII Jan-June & XIII July-Dec new series improved
- Author
- A Society of Ladies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Proprietors
- Date Published
- 1812
- Keywords
- Fashion, Women's magazines, Regency England, Dress, Costume
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About the Seller
Aucott & Thomas
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Ibstock, Leicestershire
About Aucott & Thomas
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