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

A Society of Ladies

Published by Dean and Munday, 1820

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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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Bibliographic Details

• 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
• Publisher: Dean and Munday
• Publication Date: 1820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued