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1860 Ladies Companion Book With Engravings

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1860 Ladies Companion Book With Engravings
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Antique hardcover book, in marbled boards with repaired/ replaced leather spine & marbled borders. Marbled interior cover pages. *** foxing & some stains - mostly to engravings within;  but generally a clean copy. Illustrated with engravings, this book collects issues of The Ladies' Repository magazine from January 1860 - May 1861. Contents include biographies, stories, essays, poetry and more. Approx. 750 pages, 25 steel engravings, 1 missing. Of special note - a pair of beautiful engravings of birds, one entitled "Freedom" & the other "Slavery".  7 1/2" X 11". THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, VOL. 20 The Rev. D.W. Clark, ed. Poe & Hitchcock, 1860