THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, AND GATHERINGS OF THE WEST: A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEOTED TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION. Volume VI [and] VII

Author: Tefft, B. F. (editor)
Title: THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, AND GATHERINGS OF THE WEST: A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEOTED TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION. Volume VI [and] VII
Publication: Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt and J. T. Mitchell, 1846-1847

Description: Full Leather. Good+ binding.

Octavo. iv, 380, iv, 379, [1] pp., plates. In contemporary red morocco with decorative gilt on both covers and spine and previous owner name stamped in gilt on the front board. 24 issue, each with one or two engravings that serve as frontispieces, all present. Light rubbing and scuffing to the extremities; a bit of separation starting at the bottom of the rear joint, binding remains solid; contemporary gift inscription in pencil, and a later bookplate; contents with varying degrees of foxing and toning, particularly at the plates and the adjacent leaves; occasional owner pencil bracketing in the margins, but generally clean. Early volumes from a long-running Methodist periodical in a better than usual binding on this mid-century periodical.

Seller ID: 8336

Subject: Literature and Fiction, Religion


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