Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, 1865

Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1865 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. A bound volume for 1865 of this famous fashion magazine. Thick octavo (8¾x5¾ inches). Pp. 565 +iv, 550. Table of contents. Profusely illustrated with drawings, music scores, poetry, gossip, patterns, fashions, etc., including 11 (of 12) folding double-page hand-colored fashion plates. Rebound in half black leatherette, blue cloth boards. First double-page fashion plate lacking, and first seven leaves seriously damaged at upper corner near gutter, else a fine copy. For this year, the plates are double-page and fold out. Lacking the hand-colored plate for January. Everything the fashionable lady could want including designs, music, poetry, drawings, gossip, sewing patterns, etc. along with the lovely double-page, fold-out, hand-colored fashion plates covering the latest in lady's dress fashions..