A Society of Ladies

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.

The Proprietors, 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. Good with No dust jacket as issued.

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Book number: 66177

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: Fashion Women's magazines Regency England Dress Costume

A Society of Ladies

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.

Dean and Munday, 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. Good with No dust jacket as issued.

Aucott & ThomasProfessional seller

Book number: 66512

Catalogue: Women's Studies

Keywords: Fashion Women's magazines Regency England Dress Costume