rare antique old book. containing different issues bound together from the 1840s. 
contents include:
  • illustration.print/engraving- Our Contributors.  Ann ? Stephens. woman sitting in chair.  engraved for Graham's magazine.
  • illustration.. The Elkhorn pyramid, on the upper Missouri.  Karl Bodmen. engraved by Smilie & Hinshelwood, engraved expressely for Graham's magazine
  • illustration. The Guitar.  two young ladies.  Miss F Corbeaux.  A L Dick.
  • 1. Graham's Magazine. vol XXVI no. 5. Philadelphia. November, 1844. Life and Character of the Late King of Sweden. David Hunt, a story of Western Life by Mrs. Ann S Stephens.( concluded).  The Camp in the Forest by Alfred B Street. poetry.  The Guitar by Alex A Irvine, poem. Cousin Bel's Visit. by Fanny Forester. The Magic Lute by Frances Osgood. Blanche Acheson. by Mrs J C Campbell -concluded.  Belshazzar's Feast by P Hamilton Myers.The Chevalier de Sataniski by J L Motley-continued. review of books, etc.
  • 2. Graham's Magazine. vol XXIX No. 1 , July, 1846. A trip across the British Channel by Francis J Grund. The Great March Holyday by Fanny Forester. Illustration engraving of Benjamin West.. The Fairy Ring by Mrs A M F Annan. Bunker Hill a ballad by Charles J Peterson. Catharine Clayton a tale of New York by J.C. Campbell. Hymn to the Diety by Mrs S J Howe. The Cousins or who would be a genius by Mrs Angeline E Alexander. The Death Dirge a legend of Hamburg by J Bayard Taylor. Sir Henry's Ward a tale of the Revolution by Mrs Ann S Stephens. The Builders by Henry W Longfellow.
  • illustration, Landscape with Jaques and the wounded Stag, engrave by H Gimbrede ?  has lot of spotting around margins
  • illustration , Hindoo Girl  drawn by H Corbould , engraved by J Thomson.  lot of spotting.
  • 3. Arthur's Magazine, August, 1844. The Boarding School Friends, by Albert Roland. Independence by Mrs S C Hall. The Trailing Arbutus by Sarah H Whitman. The Governor and His Successors by Harriet Mansfield.  Mental Culture and Discipline by John Abercrombie.  The Hutchinson family.  The Haunted well of Palestine a ballad by Vincent E Baron.  Poetry of Mr Haynes Bayly.  Natural Philosophy or magic of the sixteenth century. etc
  • illustration. View from Hyde Park (Hudson river) by W H Bartlett. engraved by A L Dick.  for Petersons Magazine
  • illustration  color four women fancy dresses. 
  • 4. Ladies National Magazine. vol VII no. 2. Philadelphia , February, 1845.  The Borderer's Child , or Washington at eighteen by Mary V Spencer. The last meeting or marrying for money by Ellen Ashton.   The Hindoo Slave by Mrs Ann S Stephens.  etc.
  • illustration The Virgin and Child, painted by J Lecurieux ?  engraved H S Sadd for Columbian Magazine.
  • illustration Byron and Miss Chaworth. H Richter,  engraved C Parker.
  • 5. The Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, embracing literature in every department, embelleshed with the finest steel and mezzotint engravings.  edited by John Inman.  Volume II, published Israel Post, 3 Astor House, New York .December 1844..  Thoughts on the poets. by J T Tuckerman.  True unto death, a romance of Athens by C Donald Macleod.  Cozy Joe, being the history of two events in the life of Joseph Manton by P Hamilton Myers.  The Moustache and Imperial, by T S Arthur.  Ellen Gray, or , the School Mistress by Joseph Boughton.  Byron and Miss Chaworth by Edgar A. Poe.   Jonathan Dubukins, or the old maid outdone by wm. Russell.   music the Columbian Quick step by Miss Augusta Browne.

  • illustration The Philosopher & his kite. Benjamin Franklin. 
  • illustration. The Birthplace of Washington. painted by J G Chapman, engraved by Rwadon,Wright, Hatch & Smillie
  • illustration. The desertion of Sergeant Champe
  • illustration.  Fashions for Feb 1845,  3 women and a man. color. fancy clothing, ( stain bottom right corner, small edge tear, some other spots)
  • 6. The Columbian Magazine , February, 1845.  Passage up the Connecticut from Harford to Springfield by Mrs L H Sogourney.  The Bank note by Fanny Forester.  Mabel a German legend by Frances Osgood.   Tales of Irish superstition by John Brougham.  Elizabeth Wilson by L Maria Child. The Mother to Her Child by Robert A West, . Highland Adventures by Mrs E H Steele. etc. 

  • illustration Rustic Hospitality , children, man , dog.  painted by W Collins , engraved by A L Dick for Godey's Lady's book
  • illustration with five lovely Godey's ladies. top right has stain. 
  • 7. Godey's Magazine  december, 1843) . The Sparrow poem by Marianne Browne of England.  Venetia's Requiem a tale of Florence. by H W Herbert.  Sketches of Paris by A Parisian.  The Irish at Home.  Examples of Female Heroism by Seba Smith.  The Queen of Cyprus by Mrs H F Lee.  A Peevish day, and it's consequences by T.S Arthur.  
  • illustration. Contemplation.  female portrait.
  • illustration. Not Invited.   a funny engraving of a dog putting his paws up the the table looking at a boy's pie.
  • illustration, two young ladies,   color. 
  • 8. Godey's Lady's Book, September, 1844.  The sleep of the sailor boy poem by Miss C R Cowles.  The Centre-Table by miss Leslie.. Marrying a genius by Miss Mary Orme.  Sketches from the note book of a Minister at large. by Henry F Harrington. The Machinist.  Cleopatra's needles by Helen Drayton.   The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe.  etc,
  • 9. Godey's Lady's Book, November, 1844.   The Fair Clietn by Mrs S C Hall.  The Three Breakfasts by William E Burton.  Thou Art the Man by Edgar A Poe.   The Country Cousins by Anna Fleming.  Heroic Women of America, the lady and the arrows.
  • illustration Beneficence of Washington, engraved exclusively for Godey's by J Gross
  • illustration.  Saturday Evening. woman washing child's face. 
  • illustration. Godey's Paris Fashions.  four women, color print
  • 10. Godey's Lady's Book, November, 1846.  The Prescription or, the Beneficence of Washington.  The Batson Cottage by Miss Leslie. The Swiss emigrant on the western prairies by J M 'lellan.  Sutherland Hall by J F Otis. concluded.  Parting LInes to mrs John H Likens, Martinsburgh, VA by the Rev. William Love.   The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar A. Poe.  The Vesper Chime by Miss Mary Gardiner.
  • illustration  The Beau's Stratagem .W P Frith.  J M Gimbrede, bottom corner torn off in margin.
  • illustration . The Excursion.  bunch of people in a boat.
  • illustration. portrait of a Philadelphia Lady Equestrian
  • 11. Godey's Lady's Book, December, 1846.   The Fortunes of Ephraim Doolittle founded on facts by H Hastings Weld.  Three nights in an old country house, a grandmother's reminiscence by mrs a m f Annan.  The Watkinson evening. etc.
location. stack 6



 

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