Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 300

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
The Lady's Magazine; or, Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, Appropriated Solely to their Use and Amusement. Octavo, volume III, for the year 1772, A2, B-4I4 engraved general title, illustrated with eleven full-paged engraved plates, including the frontispiece, lacking three plates as called for in the colophon, with ten folding typographically printed songs with words and music, more than one torn with loss of half the sheet, original half leather, the binding failing, ex libris Frances (1754-1803) and Hannah Lardner (1756-1839); ex libris Friends Boarding School, Westtown, PA, with bookplate; 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 in. London: Printed for G. Robinson, [1772].
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The Lady's Magazine contains riddles, short fiction, local and international news, poetry, recipes, notes on the behavior of women, marriage, lists of births, deaths, and marriages, and in this year, one hand-colored embroidery pattern. Satire is also present, and commentary that refers to trends in clothing, hair style, and personal adornment. A recipe for "a most excellent face wash" is simply plain water in a bowl applied with "a clean linen cloth." Another interesting piece refers to "the rage of plaistering little bits of black silk upon the human face."