Godey's Lady's Book

Hand colored Fashion Plates

Vol. 96 & 97 

In a modern half morocco leather binding

The original owner bound this volume together from individual issues.   There are 12 single monthly issues bound together, with all 14 fashion plates, 12 hand colored. Some of the engravings and fashion plates are bound in out of sequence and the fashion plates are trimmed at the top edge of the landscape format (see photos) Also bound in are the frontis engravings, craft pages and musical pieces, wood cut fashion illustrations, etc. Title and contents pages for both volumes are present. 

Here and there foxing to plates, some light staining and some plates with tears paper mended at the time of rebinding. Several issues have a light vertical fold to the page stock where the single issue was folded. Some damp staining top corner of several of the issues from the first 6 months of the year. Overall about VG thus