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382 pages. "A remarkable portrait of the people, politics and places that jade the era irresistibly memorable." - from dust jacket. Beautiful clean unmarked copy with slightest signs of handling to dust jacket. Gift quality. Book
30 pages. Features: Furniture of Upper Canada; Furniture of French Canada; Tibetan Jewelry; From Modesty to Mod - the ROM's Centennial exhibition of costumes worn in Canada; The Fascination of Misericords; How to Become a Collector Without Knowing It. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: International Floralies, Montreal 1980; Cabinetmaker and Weaver Friedrich K. Ploethner; 19th Century Ontario Animal Portraits; The B. Lent Pottery c. 1836-1841- Lincoln County redware; In Search of a Canadian Sampler-Maker - a fascinating story of three closely intertwined pioneer Ontario families - Robertsons, Barnharts and Smiths; the Dugald Costume Collection; The Careful Collector - Part II - International Customs and Transport. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
Features: Canadian Georgian Furniture; 19th Century Egyptian Inspired Decoration; Mennonite Dolls and Costumes; Canadian Paperweights; Portrait Sleuthing - researching the background of the painter and subject; Clay Smoking Pipes from the King's Navy Yard, Amherstberg, Ontario. Clean, sound copy. Book
16 pages. Contents: How Shall We Furnish the Parlor?; Barbaric Behavior; Manners upon the Road - of little poems; New York Fashions - black costumes, white suits, simple buff linens, elaborate batiste suits, dolly varden suits, summer silks, sicilienne mantles, French polonaises, mantles; Personal; Irish guipure crochet collar; Embroidered tablets; case for sewing silk, thread, etc.; case for visiting cards, postage stamps, etc.; The Young Professor; Paris Fashions; Sayings and Doings; Collar and sleeve of linen with raised squares; embroidered card press; ribbon and cane knitting-work case; gray linen scrap-bag; English Gossip; London's Heart - continued; Evening Toilette; Tatted Rosette for Lingerie; crochet rosette for tidies, etc.; borders for table-covers, curtains, etc.; Keeping Flowers Fresh; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's summer dresses; Echoes; New York Fashions - widow's grenadines, how to shorten demi-trains, innovations in costumes, delaine suits, fall silks; knitting-work bag with netted cover; Perssonal; crochet corset for girl from 1 to 3 years old; window curtains; figured tulle and lace fichu; figured lace fichu-scarf; figured lace fichu with sleeves; Geraniums; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Water-proof Glue; Servants in Holland; Sayings and Doings; Royal Incomes - the pay of sovereigns and their investments; Many detailed illustrations of aprons; Butternut jewelry; Paris Modes; Living in Germany - Amusements; The Darwinian Theory - a sketch in the monkey-house of the London Zoological Garends; Woolen reps wall pocket; Work-Basket; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk and cashmere walking suit; poplin walking suit; Poonah-Work; Domestic Life; MAnners upon the Road; New York Fashions - ladies' cloth, cloakings, twilled woolen goods, lingerie, laces, hints about costumes; Personal; Lace and Point Lace Collar; Waste-paper basket with embroidered lambrequins; waste-paper basket run with colored braid; point lace tidy; crochet insertion for lingerie; point lace and crochet insertion for lingerie; tatted edging; tatted rosettes for lingerie; tatted square for lingerie; Hannah - continued; sayings and doings; netted guipure insertion and edging; point lace and crochet edging; lady's point lace and crochet gimp chemise yoke; knitted and crochet insertion; needle-work edging for lingerie; crochet edging worked crosswise; crochet insertion worked crosswise; point lace and crochet insertion; cashmere over-skirt; ecru crepe de Chine over-skirt; Algerienne over-skirt; How Nationalities Grow Old; My Prophet; The Lunch-Table-Coffee; Useful Recipes; carriage leather wall tidy to hang over wash-stand; embroidery designs for a foundation for toilette cushions, etc.; Blood-sucking Bats; humor. Average wear. Clipping from page 603. Book
16 pages. Contents: Youth's English Walking Coat, Vest, and Pantaloons; Woman's Work; Manners upon the Road - of Card-Playing; New York Fashions - hints to ladies, black silk suits, black alpaca and cashmere; Personal; Point lace and white needle-work border for window hangings, etc.; Flannel and satin cradle quilt; Wall pocket with Lambrequin; Medallions for card-cases, cigar-cases, etc.; Work-bag to be worn on the belt; A Railway Adventure; tapestry design for cushions, chairs, foot-stools, etc.; Pompey's Pillar and Cleopatra's Needles; Ladies' and children's bathing costumes - nice illustration; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Wonderful full-page illustration "Home-Coming" shows seaman with child; humor. Some staining. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: dog's collar with line and halter; Reserved Seats; Bills of Fare for Supper-Parties; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - evening dresses, evening suits, bonnets and veils, old ladies' dresses, young misses' costumes, varieties; Personal; crochet shooting cap; point russe and crochet sofa-pillow; embroidered wood-box; application embroidery for gun sling; fire-screen in application and satin stitch embroidery; corners of borders in Florentine guipure; Arsenic in Carpets; Paris Fashions; Nanny's Substitute; Sayings and Doings; Game-bag; Netted Guipure Edging; Dog's Crochet Blanket; Fringe for trimming wrappings, covers, etc.; window-screen in application embroidery; The Hair; English Gossip; To the Bitter End - continued; Josephine Evening Dress; humor. Average wear. Book
20 pages. Contents: Cover Illustration "They Carefully Put Their Teeth Into the Lye..."; Thanksgiving; Women and Men - Opressive Leisure; Family Living on $500 a Year - part XLVI - Thanksgiving Dinners; New York Fashions - furs, small girls' and misses' costumes; Personal; Sketches in Constantinople - Bridge of Galata, Palace of Dolma Bagtche Imperial Palace, Mosque of St. Sophia, Turkish Ladies Shopping, etc.; Lyd's Three Thanksgivings - with illustrations; Wonderful vull-page illustrated ad for the opening of the new Grand Street Building of Edward Ridley & Sons of New York - "Ridley's, 309 to 321 Grand St."; Lovely centerfold illustration "Portrait of a Lady" - from the picture byCarolus Duran exhibited in the Royal Academy, 1886; A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready - first part; Misses' and girls' dresses and cloaks - nice full-page illustration; Corsages for dinner and reception toilettes; laundry basket; afternoon toilettes; some infant schools; a beautiful air-plant; humor. Above-average wear and soiling Book
14 pages. Contents: Evening Toilette; Manners Upon the Road - of preaching and preachers; Blot-Ting Papers - No. XI - pursuit of the thirty thousand; New York Fashions - spring goods, dominos and masquerade costumes, model costumes; Personal; Tapestry Design for Fire Screens - full-page illustration; Tapestry design for fire screen; revolving fire screen; embroidered wood box; crochet clothes bag; Friendship; One of Saint Valentine's Tricks; Paris Modes; Silk Spinning for Children; Starch and Gum in Bread; Peculiarities of Some Female Novelists; Full-page illustration "Choosing a Valentine - The Ancient Manner, and the Modern"; Illustration "Caught" shows the image of two smoochers behind the laundry line; A Fashionable Wedding - full-page of illustrations; humor. Average wear. Missing pages 121-122. Top half of page 121 missing. Book
16 pages. Contents: Tulle and Lace Veils; Fashionable Employments; Dinner-Parties; Dinners, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of rainy weather; New York Fashions - camel's-hair cloth; loadies' cloth costumes; new tunics; "Dolly Vardens"; Calicoes; plannel polonaises and wrappers; toys, chromo-lithographs; Personal; towel rack of carved wood with embroidery; braid-work lunch bag; canvas work-bag with point russe embroidery; tatted and crochet insertion and edging for lingerie; Border for curtains, lambrequins; Suits for girls and blys from 1 to 15 years old; The Lovels of Arden - continiued; Grumbers; knitted and crochet worsted glove; velvet and kid kitchen glove; sewing-weight with case for sewing utensils; Royal's Raffle, by Harriet Prescott Spofford; Sayings and Doings; Paris Gossip; The Prince of Wales - illustration and write-up; Netted clothes-bag; crochet and tatted and needle-work collars for children; point lace cover for fan; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Silk ball dress with tulle trimming; satin and gauze ball dress; Chasing a Moth; Some Social Customs; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - spring goods, fassementerie; China crape paletots, black grenadine suits; watch-case simulating a beetle; fan with satin stitch embroidery; crape, lace, and gros grain Bertha; Small Superstitions; On Domestic Scape-Goats; Hannah - continued; The fashionable season; sayings and doings; Aigrettes for hats, etc.; Desiree, by Justin McCarthy; The Fisherman's Darling; Lent - Ancient and Modern; Infinitely Little People; Family breakfasts and dinners; Alice Cary - write-up with illustration; Nice full-page illustration entitled "The Fisherman's Darling"; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Spring Wrappings for Girls and Boys from 6 to 14 Years Old; The Old Clothes Men; Household Furniture - woman's share; New York Fashions - polonaises and mantles, mantles, gingham suits with Smyrna lace, pink and blue batistes, mor hints about dresses; Personal; embroidered foot-stool; Work-bag; Embroidered Work-bag; Monogram for lingerie, etc. - white embroidery; Section of cover for parasol - wrought guipure and lace stitch; How to Preserve the Hearing; Cravat End - silk braid, gold cord, and lace stitch; Ladies' House Dresses - illustraiton; As Long as She Lived! - continued; A.T. Stewart; Sayings and Doings; Spring bonnets; agrafes and buckle for bonnets; The Literary Lamtreatment of Music; Parasols; Head-dress of cream-colored serge ribbon; head-dress of pink serge ribbon; Ladies' and Children's Spring Wrappings and Dresses - illustration; Dill's Love Affair; Centennial Customs; Trellis-Work, etc.; A Right of Way; Great full-page illustration "" Right of Way" shows conflicting man-powered cabs and their fares; Lapland costuem; A Curious Sicilian Legend; Gold-Fish; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Winter Toilettes; Medical Study for Women in New York; Nomadic Wealth; The Dry-Rot of Vanity; Women and Men - city and country; New York Fashions - business suits, morning suits, frock-coat suits, dress suits, overcoats, shirts, collars and cuffs, scarfs and neckties, chamois vests, underwear, handkerchiefs, gloves, hats, shoes and canes, house coats, gowns, small boys' suits; Personal; tapestry borders, brooches and lace-pins; bulbs in the house; The Woodlanders - continued; Mother Goose Costumes; The Career of Nicholas Braun, by Margaret B. Rudd; Useful Recipes; "The Tower of Babel" - full-page illustration; Pattern included; The Flight of the Swallow - illustration by Howard Pyle; Madame Burrill's Pitcher, by Mary L. Bolles Branch; Family Living on $500 a Year - part XLV; "Hamlet" at the Comedie Francaise - with full page of illustrations; Some Island Neighbors; humor. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Street and House Dresses; A Chapter for Novelty-Seekers; A Word in Season for the Old Coal Man, by Gail Hamilton; Manners Upon the Road - of some fellow-travelers; New York Fashions - evening toilettes, polonaises, woolen suits, bonnets and hats; Personal; Crochet shawl; crochet and netted cape; crepe de Chine Fichu; woolen plaid Bedouin; Americans in Paris; Gros Grain Suit - front and back illustrations; Silk and Cashmere Vest-Polonaise - front and back illustrations; Propinquity; Du Chaillu in the North; Testamentary Curiosities; Sayings and Doings; Paris Fashions; Ladies' and Children's Fall and Winter Suits; Polish Customs; English Gossip; London's Heart - continued; A Street Band - great illustration; embroidered work-box; case for tatting, sewing utensils; netted guipure insertions; needle-work border for handkerchiefs; Green; humor. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Content: Lady's watteau wrapper - front and back; Fish-Scale Flowers; Every Body to Blame; New York Fashions - the watteau wrapper, costumes, basques, over-skirts, lower skirts, polonaises, carriage costumes; evening and dinner dresses; Personal; Chair with embroidered cover; brown linen clothes-pin bag; intant's protector; gros grain apron; fault-finding; Otto of Roses; Ladies' and children's house dresses; lady's dinner dress; large illustration "Japanese Ladies at Their Toilette"; Paris Modes; My Big Blunder; Extremities - the head and hands; A Chinese Funeral in San Francisco; Useful Recipes; Will it Pay; Princess Johanna Von Bismarck; Mushroom Culture; Breton Women at a Pardon; and humor. Some staining. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Lady's Evening Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of stoves and fires; New York Fashions - double-breasted jacket and worth over-skirt, crinoline, silk suits and over-skirts, elegant black costumes, reception dresses, the Josephine coiffure, evening bonnets, opera cloaks, colored jabots, lingerie, fancy jewelry; Personal; crochet guipure edging for lingerie; Russia-leather chatelaine belts; tortoise-shell comb and hair-pins; knitted shawl worn as a hood; Been-Porridge Hot; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' Fall and Winter Suits; Paris Gossip; To the Bitter End - continued; English Gossip; Full-page illustration for the month of October; The Three Emperors at Berlin; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 705. Book
16 pages. Features: fall hats and bonnets; Hedge culture; To make chromos look like nature; The First baby; New York Fashions - mantles of costumes; crochet edgings for lingerie; case for table mats, tea napkins, etc.; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Useful recipes; corners of borders in satin stitch embroidery, for album covers, portfolios, etc.; gray sultane suit; Cats; Paris modes; Ten in Ten, Once; Guido in the cell of Beatrice Cenci; Swiss muslin fichu; cambric apron for girl from 5 to 7 years old; linen apron for girl from 5 to 7 years old; Freaks of Memory; humor; and more. Average wear. Half of page 675 missing. Book
20 pages. Contents: Autumn and Winter Toilettes; The Care of a French-flat kitchen; Small Selfishnesses; Women and emN - the winter school of slang; Family living on $500 a year - part XLII; New York Fashions - French dresses, French toilettes in wool; skirts and draperies, basques and drimmings, polonaises, prevailing colors, carriage costumes; Personal; Galloon for trimming hats and bonnets; Bulgarian wedding ceremonies; An English Hospital - with illustrations; Paston Carew - Millionaire and Miser - continued; Paris Fashion; Nice centerfold illustration "Winter Wrappings"; Mrs. Beardsley; The Woodlanders - continued; How to Judge a Horse; The Maldives Islands; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
16 pages. Contents: general directions for knitting and crocheting, etc.; knitted and crochet white zephyr worsted jacket; A New Use for skeleton leaves; The Kitchen; Manners Upon the Road - of putting the best foot forward; New York Fashions - bronze and blue costumes, the princess polonaise, dinner dresses, black silk suits, the dolman polonaise, evening dresses, wedding dresses, bound hats; knitted Alsacian bow; lady's knitted under-vest; crochet petticoat; knitted under-shirt for girl from 4 to 6 years old; Paris Fashions; That Switch; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; crochet cap for boy from 2 to 4 years old; knitted hood, also warn as a fichu; directions for cutting and making night-shirt for boy from 6 to 8 years old; Blue; London's Heart - continued; Illustration "Steaming and punting on the Thames, England; knitted and netted fanchon; trimming and fringe for hoods, jackets, sontags, etc.; crochet stitches for jackets, capes, sontags, etc.; humor. Average wear. Small clipping from page 653. Book
16 pages. Contents: Front cover illustration of a Short-Sacque Walking Suite; Separation, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Short-Sacque Suit, Easter Suits, Dinner Dresses, Summer Silks, Goat's-Hair, and Alpacas, Pique Suits, Linen Suits, Batiste Suits, Grenadine Costumes; Personal; Lovely page of Ladies' Spring Wrappings illustrations; Claremont, Surrey (with illustration); Hannay (Continued); Writings; Sayings and Doings; The Royal Marriage - illustrationns of The Marquis of Lorne and the Princess Louise; Sister Annie, by Justin McCarthy; Plain Speaking; Family Breakfasts and Dinners - recipes; Putting Children Forward; Illustrations of Princess Louise's Wedding Gifts; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
16 pages. Contents: Birthday Fete and Concert Toilettes of the Empress - cover illustration; New York Fashions - shaded suits, grisaille suits, mourning suits, linen costumes, house dresses; Personal; Crochet Tidy; Section of Byzantine embroidery for light screen; Cigar-case in Byzantine embroidery; Crochet Garter; Crochet cover for toilette-cushions, lamp-mats, etc.; Popline Walking dress - two illustrations; How they Welcome Easter in Rome; full-page illustration of "The Mall, Saint James's Park, on a Drawing Room Day"; half-page illustrations of "Half-Penny Dinner for Poor Children in East London" and "The Dainty Child"; The Cryptogram - continued; illustration of "The Orphans" on page 285 has been removed and is not included; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and children's toilettes; The Eye; Recovering from Illness; New York Fashions- wedding dresses, the trousseau, etiquette of weddings; Personal; The Scene-Painter's Wife; The Mapleton Mystery, by Annie Thomas; Embroidered clothes rack; Crochet fraises for children; watch and jewel case; cambric cravat ends; crochet cap crown, toilette cushion cover; Promenade Toilette; Insertions for Lingerie; Afghan customs; Paris fashions; Debenham's Vow - continued; Harry's Anti-Society - great large photo; Humor; and more. Above-average wear. Book
16 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's winter dresses illustrated on front cover; Dress - Ancient and Modern; Medical Severity; New York Fashions - Fancy Costumes; Personal; illustrations of suits for girls; Illustrations of frocks for young boys; Hannah (continued); The Burst Pipe - with illustration; On Healthful Family Bread - by Catherine E. Beecher; Society in Ancient Greece; Sayings and Doings; Great full-page illustration presents six Ball and Evening Toilettes; Lovely sleeve, veil and good illustrations; Scissors! - a Valentine Tale; Folding Gothic Screens; The Wonderful Lamp; "Slow Work" - illustration shows young man and woman seated and awaiting cupid to activate; Lovely blouse, apron, talma and underwaist illustrations; Boarding-House cartoons on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine