The Ladies' Museum for the Year MDCCCXXIX (1829)
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- hardcover
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County Leitrim, Ireland
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About This Item
Volume II July to December. 358 pp. 6 issues bound together. Frontispiece - engraved portrait of C. M. Wieland. Contents include: Christopher Martin Wieland; Travels in Turkey; My First Ball, Marriage in France, The Mirror of Fashion - coloured plate of fashionable dresses over 2 pages (Walking dresses, Morning dresses, Public Promenade Dresses, Dinners dresses); engraving of Vincenzo Month; The Loves of Poets; Constantinople, The Mirror of Fashion - coloured plate of fashionable dresses over 2 pages; engraved plate of Buffalo, Anecdotes of Animals; The Croppy, The Mirror of Fashion - coloured plate of fashionable dresses over 2 pages, Engraved portrait - Lady of Irkdale; The Monks and the Pilgrim; , The Mirror of Fashion - coloured plate of fashionable dresses over 2 pages; engraved plate of Buffalo, Anecdotes of Animals; The Croppy, The Mirror of Fashion - coloured plate of fashionable dresses over 2 pages; engraved portrait; Duke of Friedland's Page; Gypies, Fairy-Women (from 'Tales of Irish Life'); Mirror of Fashion - coloured plate of fashionable dresses over 2 pages; engraved portrait; Dr Doddridge etc. Spots of foxing mainly confined to vicinity of engraved plates. Text otherwise clean. Binding tight. Bookplate on fep. Green half leather with green hard paper boards. Gilt lettering on two black spine labels. Gilt decoration on spine. Top, bottom and edges of spine rubbed. Corners rubbed. Overall condition VG.
Details
- Bookseller
- Owl Books
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- Bookseller Inventory #
- 8309
- Title
- The Ladies' Museum for the Year MDCCCXXIX (1829)
- Author
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- Book condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: James Robins and Co., 1829.
- Keywords
- History womens' Fashion
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