A COLONIAL BELL'S MESSAGE (MY LADY'S TOILETTE).

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Philadelphia, C.H. Graves, 1911

Fine

"The original of this book is a century-old heirloom in a cultured Southern family."  Catharine Shepherd drew and colored elements from a lady's toilette, adding a moral inscription beneath.  The point of the moral is also in the illustration itself, hidden by ingenious overlays.  It was reprinted here, with faithfully recreated overlays.  The book is very fragile but this copy is in fine condition, in the original publisher's embossed box.  A rare survivor.

Square 8vo. Pictorial boards, ribbon ties, publisher's box with spider-web glassine protective inner sheets. 4 leaves of text, 20 plates.