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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 XI Jan-June & XII July-Dec improved series
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
Dean and Munday. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1820. 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 rubbed at edges, no inscriptions but Vol XI has the label for a Leicester bookbinder (Cockshaw) on the front pastedown. Marbled boards and spine titles do not match. Colour illustrations on plates of fashion designs 1 or 2 per month. Black & white plates of the person featiured in the first article as frontispiece to each month, index. Vol XI: index and possibly 1 or 2 pages + rear endpaper missing from June, only May's fashion plate remains, all others have been removed. iv + 338 pages, black & white plates all present. Vol XII: damp marks on endpapers, iv + 356. Colour plates: September plate excised, all others present Black & white plates: all present. Contents include biographies, poetry, anecdotes, theatre reviews and the Mirror of fashion, designs credited to Miss Pierpoint, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden .
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- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66512
- 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 XI Jan-June & XII July-Dec improved series
- Author
- A Society of Ladies
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dean and Munday
- Date Published
- 1820
- Keywords
- Fashion, Women's magazines, Regency England, Dress, Costume
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Aucott & Thomas
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Ibstock, Leicestershire
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