Frank Leslie's New Family Magazine - [ Volumes 6 & 7; Twelve Issues Bound As a Single Tome ]

New York, N.Y: Frank Leslie, 1860. Large quarto in brown quarter calf leather and rustic black cloth backed boards; volumes 6 & 7 bound together (12 issues); hand-painted full-page color frontis to each issue (typically of women and children in fashionable dress); various pagings (approx. 1100 pages total); numerous b&w illustrations, some full-page. Marbled endpapers. 30cm. Board corners worn and chafed, small closed crack to leather spine head at joint; minimal wear and foxing intermittently throughout to margins. Overall an about very good copy. . Hardcover.

Lovely hand-painted plates. 19th Century American Women's magazines. Fashion -- Periodicals. Lady's magazine; Ladies magazines. Literature. Clothing and dress -- Periodicals. Women's clothing -- Periodicals. Needlework -- Periodicals. Hairstyles -- Periodicals. Women's periodicals, American. American literature -- Periodicals. Caricatures and cartoons -- Periodicals. Mormons -- Periodicals. American literature. Caricatures and cartoons. Clothing and dress. Fashion. Hairstyles. Mormons. Needlework. Women's clothing. Women's periodicals, American. Weighs 5.7 lbs before packing. Shipping at cost.