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184934561849. NEW ENGLAND FEMALE MORAL REFORM SOCIETY. FRIENDS OF VIRTUE MAGAZINE. Boston: Massachusetts: New England Female Moral Reform Society 1849-1850. 8vo. tan quarter-calf leather & marbled boards. A run of the semi-monthly magazine from July 16 1849 Volume XII No. 14 through July 15 1850 Volume XIII No. 15. Edited exclusively by "A Lady" the magazine set a strict moral tone for the period discussing the evils of dancing tobacco etc. and the virtues of moral purity through articles like "What Course Shall Be Pursued With Young Females Who Have Taken The Wrong First Step!" With the signature and personal bookplate of Dr. Dudley D. Shoenfeld on the front pastedown. Shoenfeld was a well-known New York City psychiatrist who participated in the famous Lindbergh kidnapping trial. Good little spotting text. $250.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1840025470London: Virtue 1840. Quarto. Volume I: Portrait frontispiece hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page ix 140 pages 66 leaves of plates one map. Volume II: hand-colored vignette title page and regular title page iv. 106 pages 52 leaves of plates. The map plate in volume I was done by W. Hughes. All 119 plates are present. In 1836 William Henry Bartlett was sent to America to begin making engravings of the major sites in the United States. Virtue had also commissioned Nathaniel Willis to make letterpress descriptions of each image. Thomas Dougherty drew two of the originals while the rest were done with remarkable precision by Bartlett. While Willis is first on the title page it is Bartlett's fine work that has made this the finest 19th century work on America from the artists' perspective. the plates view the Eastern U.S. before the full force of the Industrial Revolution changed the face of the eastern landscape forever. Bound in a very fine rich red 3/4 red morocco spines with bands and decorative panels with a matching slipcase. Abbey Travel in aquatint and lithography 651; Blanck BAL 22755; Sabin 3784. Virtue unknown books
