Woman's Own Book

Jewett City, CT: Reade Publishing Co, 1873. Cloth. Very Good. The uncommon 1873 1st --and probably only-- edition of this 1873 beauty guide/reference book meant for women exclusively. With chapter headings such as "How to Be Beautiful", "How to Dress", "Courtship and Marriage", "The Mother", "What Every Woman Must Have", etc., safe to say the book's target audience is the post-Civil War American woman. Solid and VG in its russet cloth, with decorative bordering and blindstamping at the panels and bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Light soiling and creasing to the preliminaries, one closed tear at the front free endpaper. Square 12mo, charming and very presentable.