Title: Godey's Lady's Book - 12 monthly issues in one volume: (January-December, 1850 - Volumes XL and XLI)

Author: Louis A. Godey, edited by Sarah J. HALE; Benjamin Olds, binder

Pub. Date: Louis A. Godey, Philadelphia, 1850 

Half Leather Hardback, no Dust Jacket, 7" by 10", about 900 pages

Condition: Good - wear to covers, inside pages toned with light foxing on engravings and color plates, NOT ex-library.

Contains both black and white and hand-colored plates throughout, depicting various fashions throughout the year 1850. Also contains sheet music and various other illustrations.

Godey's Lady's Book, alternatively known as Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book, was an American women's magazine that was published in Philadelphia from 1830 to 1878. It was the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War.[1] Its circulation rose from 70,000 in the 1840s to 150,000 in 1860.[2] In the 1860s Godey's considered itself the "queen of monthlies". After several changes, it ceased publication in 1896.

        

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