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Title: Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life
Description: New York, Rudd and Carleton, 1857. First edition. Cloth. The first book edition of this highly popular satirical poem by William Allen Butler. The first book edition of this poem. First published anonymously in Harper's Weekly in the same year. In the publisher's original cloth binding. 'Nothing to Wear' stands as William Allen Butler's most popular satirical poem, which tells of the fashion dilemmas of Flora M'Flimsy, a society lady of New York. Decorated with a frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. Collated, complete. In the original blind-stamped cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and marks to the boards. Darkening to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With scattered spotting to the contents. Very Good . Ill.: Hoppin. Very Good .

Keywords: Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life William Allen Butler Hoppin Illustrated William Allen Butler Hoppin


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