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Comprises: Arthur, T.S. & Miss Virginia F. Townsend. The Ladies' Home Magazine. 2 volumes: bound Volumes XIII & XIV (1859 & 1860). Vol. XIII with 15 steel-engraved plates (3 with period hand-coloring); 3 single-colored full-page design plates; Vol. XIV with 18 steel-engraved plates (3 with period hand-coloring). 8vo. Period uniform half calf & marbled boards. * Demorest's Illustrated Monthly and Mme. Demorests Mirror of Fashions. Volume VII. 1870. With 5 steel-engraved plates (3 with period hand-colored); 2 lithographed plates (one folding). half black morocco & dark brown-maroon cloth. Together, 3 volumes.

Beautifully illustrated mid-nineteenth century fashion plate books, with many scenes of children and young women dressed in the highest styles of the day, as well as other illustrations, music sheets, fine literature, and various women's issues of the time period.