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187116 pages. Contents: Boy's blouse, shirt-waist, and knickerbockers; Serviceable Clubbing; New York Fashions - chintz silks and percales, riding habits, applique embroidery , cashmere wraps, varieties; Personal; crochet cover for boiled eggs, potatoes, etc.; Sillk Brush; Crochet cover for flat-iron; crochet and serpentine braid insertion for lingerie; tatted rosette; ironing mat, corner of border for cushions, covers; cravats and bows for the hair; Hannah; Dreams; Useful recipes; Lovely illustration "The Rustic Mirror" shows girl looking at her reflection in water; Holiday Faces - with illustrations; Legends of the Cross; Clara Barton in Strasburg and Paris; Whorth While for Women to Know; The School-Master; A Stroll on Shingleton Beach - and what came of it; Paris Fashions; Sea-Side Fantasies - illustration; humor. Average wear. Book
188620 pages. Contents: Winter Toilettes; Princesses at a Watering-Place; The Household Herald; Women and Men - every one that thirsteth; New York Fashions; Tapestry band for reclining chairs, etc.; background stitches for tapestry cushions ; fans and flowers for evening dress; Mrs. Burkes Pudding; The Woodlanders - continued; Family Living on $500 a Year - par XLVII; Some Christmas Suggestions; Sketches in Constantinople - text with illustrations; The Cocaine Habit - The Worst Slavery Known - New Revelations of Power; Nice centerfold illustration "Going to the Market in the Tropics" whows black man and woman on horseback; full-page illustration of "The Young Scion of the House of Alvarado on a Fiery Half-Broken Mustang; A Millionaire of Rough and Ready - continued; Knitted Chenille cape; Seal-skin wrap with beaver trimming; fur-trimmed mantle; Plain and plaid wool dress; India cashmere dress; A New Phase of Darwinism; humor. Above-average wear. Pattern included. Book
187716 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's House and Street Suits; Novel Junk-Shops and their Keepers; St. Valentine's Day; Household Furniture - Wall-Paper; New York Fashions - spring silks; black silks, armure silks, brocaded silks, oriental silks, bourette, evening silks, checks and stripes, black and colored grenadines, spring millinery; Personal; Fringe of polonaises; Mignardise and crochet border for dresses, wrappings, etc.; netted and knotted fringe for dresses, wrappings, etc.; Mignardise and crochet edgings for lingerie; Border for lingerie - wroght guipure; Monograms for handkerchiefs; Border for Opera Cloaks, children's dresses, etc.; Dress Trimming; Jewel-Cup; Furniture Brush; Initials for Handkerchiefs, white embroidery; Figures for Tidies - wroght guipure and lace stitch; Juliet - continued; Savyings and Doings; coiffures, scalpettes, braids, etc. - nice illustrations; Gros Grain evening dress; Silk and Satin Evening Dress; Green Pastures and Piccadilly - continued; Why Kitty Did Not Kill Herself; Madame Schliemann - wife of the celebrated antiquarian discoverer - article and nice illustration; Fan with Lace Cover; Crepe lisse and lace fichu-collar; Cravats of serge ribbon with embroidery; netted guipure square; Russian braid and crochet square for tidies; Eradication of Garden Vermin; humor. Average wear. Book
188616 pages. Contents: "A Quiet Life" - cover illustration by W.T. Smedley; Shy People; Dunce or Pedant; Women and Men - women's letters; Family living on $500 a years - par IV; New York Fashions - warm jackets, hoods and robes for selighing, toboggan suits, inexpensive house dresses, hints about spring goods; Personal; South Kensington Designs; The Heir of the Ages, by James Payn - continued; The Cantankerous Wife - a folk-tale from the Russian of Afansief, by Mrs. Burton Harrison; Modern Kitchens; centerfold illustration of Warwick Castle; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miser - continued; Honey William; The Great Botallack Mine; Evening Toilettes; Flower Garnitures for Evening Dresses; Ladies' Gloves; Arab Cookery, by Zahera - meat dishes; Evening toilettes; Evening corsage with lace trimming; humor. Above-average wear. Cover fold mostly open. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Ladies' spring house and street dresses; The Love of Dress; Manners Upon the Road - of snow; New York Fashions - the spring suit, misses and children's clothing, boys' clothes; Personal; Necessaire for sewing utensils; tatted and crochet collars; cover for sofa-pillow - gold or silver embroidery; corners for album-covers, cushions, etc.; border for trimming lingerie; work-basket with stand; tassels for work-baskets, curtains, etc.; mignardise and crochet cover for toilette cushions; point lace and crochet cover for toilette cushions, etc.; Gold Beads; Some toilettes at Washington; Sayings and Doings; Ladies' and children's walking and house dresses; Color in Rooms; Illustrations - "Comedy of Married Life" - shows bull confronting man and woman; How it was Done; English Gossip; Sabres and Skirts; Peonies; Useful Recipes; To the Bitter End - continued; Who Will My Husband Be? - text and large illustration of women pouring water through the end of a key; humor. Average wear. Book
187216 pages. Contents: Ladies' spring and summer dresses; The other side; Manners upon the road - of meeting ourselves; New York Fashions - spring and summer suits, wedding dresses; Personal; cravats in Venetian and point lace embroidery on lace; tatted cravat; Curtain Band - braid-work, knit-work, crochet, and tatting; Tapestry foundations for lamp-mats, sofa-pillows, etc.; Medallions for cigar-cases, card-cases, etc.; table-cover with satin stitch and gobelin embroidery; Jeannette Laboulaye; English Gossip; Sayings and Doings; Lady's Dinner Dress; Weddings and Presents; spring and summer hats and bonnets; borders in white and guipure embroidery; design for round sewing-weights, lamp-mats; tatted edging and insertion for trimming lingerie; covers for toilette cushions, etc.; French Training of Children; London's Heart - continued; Paris Fashions; The great Bronze Budha of Japan; French Society;Sunday Morning - nice illustration; A Mother's Meeting - nice illustration; humor. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Features: Meditations among the tombs of the Washingtons; The Legend of Jubal; New York Fashions - infants' layettes; Personal; Silk brush; Infant's knitted bathing sponge; breakfast cap of muslin and linen bands; parasol covers in point lace and muslin; Water-proof cloak for girl from 10 to 12 years old - front and back; Rings in Fable; dress with point lace trimming; black cashmere jacket trimmed with gold and silver braid; Full-page of illustations of eight ladies wearing a variety of lovely street suits; Full page of illustrations of a wide variety of infants' clothing; Paris Gossip; The Cryptogram - continued; Mrs. Justice Morris (Esther M'Quigg) - with illustration of her; humor; and more. Average wear. Small clipping from page 323. Clipping from page 235. Book
187616 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
187216 pages. Contents: Skin diseases caused by bad soaps; Cloaks and overcoats for girls and boys from 3 to 14 years old; The Wondering Heir; Manners Upon the Road - of the seasons; New York Fashions - double vests, new drapery, plain redingotes, black camel's-hair polonaises, polish jackets, mantelets, basques, embroidery, waistcoats, pompadour brocades, garlands, fanciful stockings; Personal; Cord and crochet passementerie border; tatted and crochet collars; knitted and crochet white worsted fanchon Tatted and crochet edging; knitted knee protectors; embroidered work-table; braid, cord, and soutache borders; knitted hood; The Bitter End - continued; Sayings and Doings; Knitted and crochet white worsted cape with hood; Swiss muslin and lace frill with Jabot; crape and lace frill with Jabot; Swiss muslin fichu; Paris Fashions; Better Late Than Never; English Gossip; Useful Recipes; Tatted edging for linterie; embroidered work-bag; toilette box with silk and cane cover; tapestry design for slippers; gros grain cravat bow; An Algerian Wedding; humor. Average wear. Book
187116 pages. Contents: frame-work worsted square shawl worn as a hood; All-Souls Day; Gossip; New York Fashions - crocheted and knitted garments; embroidery, guipure and point lace work; personal; Knitted Fanchon; knitted and crochet cap to wear under the bonnet; knitted lace for trimming mantelets, etc.; crochet stitches; Hannah - continued; Flowering Sunday; Sayings and doings; hood for girl from 8 to 10 years old; hood for girl from 10 to 12 years old; cashmere hood; tricot beaver hood; cashmere hood; cloth hood; flannel hood; ladies' winter wrappings; Nice large illustation of ladies' mantles and paletots; Octavia Hadleigh's Story; Paris Modes; The Value of Fiction; knitted loop stitch; crochet stitches; knitted foundation for shawls, scarfs, etc.; crochet border; crochet stitch; crochet border for goods, capes, jackets, etc.; crochet stitch for jacket with short sleeves; Spray-Work; humor. Average wear. Book
187416 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Winter Wrappings and Suits; Statuary in Transparency; Etching on Ivory; Husband and Wife; Disturbances among old Furniture; New York Fashions - winter wraps; further hints about dresses, evening dresses, garniture and coiffures; Personal; Double Christian Names; Gros Grain and Camel's-Hair House Dress; Gray Poult de Soi Dress; Velocity of Nervous Transmission; The Flower of Bernay - a short story of Bernay de L'eure; Sayings and Doings; Great centerfold image "Ladies' Winter Dresses"; English Gossip; Palm-Trees and Their Products; Lost for Love - continued; Passementerie borders and rosette for trimming dresses, wrappings, etc.; A Tour in Switzerland; humor. Average wear. Book
188620 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
188616 pages. Contents: Ascot Toilettes - cover illustrations; Between Husband and Wife; Women and Men - who shall fix the value?; Family Living on $500 a Year - XXXIV; New York Fashions - autumn dress goods, pin-striped woollens, braid stripes, pomponettes, beaded corded and velvet stripes, plain wools and black stuffs, silk velvets, plaids and cross-bars, cloakings, dress trimmings; Personal; British Water Birds - illustration; British Land Birds - illustration; Open-air preaching by the sea-side - article and super centerfold illustration; The Woodlanders - continued; Paston Carew, Millionaire and Miserj - continued; Summer Beverages; A Lover of Flowers, by Mary Wilkins; Decorative hints from Mount Desert and the Adirondacks; Unwritten Laws; Quiet Obsequies; Watering-place Toilettes; Table Mat - canvas embroidery and plush; a bit of ancient court gossip; chair back with embroidered band; summer toilettes; corsages; some German sweetmeats; humor. Average wear and soiling Book
187116 pages. Contents: Before the Doctor Comes - boils, carbuncles, and felons; Suits for girsl and boys from 4 to 15 years old; Regimen of Travel; New York Fashions - French Cashmere, English fabrics, Cicillian cloth, widow's silk, fall shawls, cloth and cashmere wraps, house jackets, velvets, opera cloaks; Personal; Watch-case; Dressing-case; Carriage leather music port-folio; suit for girl from 3 to 5 years old; corners of tapestry borders for covers, cushions, etc.; suit for girl from 10 to 12 years old; suit for girl from 7 to 9 years old; bows for slippers; drilling and crochet clothes-bag; tatted and crochet fringe; Nursing as a Profession for Ladies; The Lovels of Arden - continued; Fall hats and bonnets - many illustrations; Vague People; Seeing the World; The Gipsy's Glass; Useful Recipes; Large illustration "Croquet Under Difficulties"; Crape sprays for trimming hats; Lady's Walking Suit; Lady's house dress; Women in the French Revolution; humor. Average wear. Book
187116 pages. Contents: Cover illustration of an Apron-Polonaise Walking Suit.; The Jewel of Constistency, by Gail Hamilton; New York Fashions - The Apron Polonaise, Imported Suits, Spring Paletots; Personal; Tapestry Border for Chairs, Sofas, etc.; Neglige basket trimmed with ruches; Brioche with cloth and knitted cover; Netted Guipure Edging; Trimming for blouses, lingerie, etc.; Hannah (continued); Old Ladies' Flowers; Bizarre full-page illustration shows new bride and groom emerging from church... but bride is an elephant!; Illustration on page 201 has been removed; Familiy breakfasts and dinners - recipes; Sayings and Doings; Common Ugliness; Tricks of Countenance; April Showers - with illustration; Humor on back cover; and more. Unmarked. Average wear. Magazine
186916 pages. Contents: Infant's Baptismal Robe with Netted Guipure Trimming; Looking into the future; Blot-ting Papers; New York Fashions - Misses and children's dresses; Personal; Tyrolean hat; Apron for girl from 1 to 3 years old; Netted Guipure Insertion; Embroidered Flannel Cradle Blanket; Stuart FraiseMuslin and Lace Fraise; Where do some things come from; The perfect man; Baschlik trimmed with gold braid; Debenham's Vow - continued; Sayings and Doings; Lovely jackets and dresses in two large illustrations on page 792; Basque for elderly lady; Dress with bretelles and sash; Mothers of men; The art of coaxing; Paris Gossip; Sir Philip's Wooing, by Babington White; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Jacket tripped with gold braid; Blot-Ting Papers - Culinary Grievances; Holiday Gifts; Cashmere Scarf with Netted Guipure Trimming; Beret for Child under one year old; Cashmere scarf with crochet and tatted fringe; fishu with revers for girl from 4 to 6 years old; Satin Ribbon and Lace Cravat; Flanel Blouse; Close-fitting jacket with Revers; The Evergreen Message - a Christmas Story; Gossip on Crests and Monograpms; Mrs. Burton's Mince-Meat; Centerfold illustrations present twenty-one girls and ladies wearing a lovely variety of dresses and casaques; Debenham's Vow - continued; Design for bell pull satin stitch; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Ladies' and Children's Toilettes - cover illustration; Bringing up Parents; New York Fashions - spring bonnets, spring silks for suits, other spring fabrics, a new trimming; Personal; Cravats; Silk Cravat with Tatted Ends; Crochet Cravat End - Irish Guipure; Corners of Netted Guipure and Crochet Borders; Plaid Talma; Hats and Bonnets; Coiffure for Young Married Lady; Feather Fan; Crochet fringe borders; Powder box; Paris Fashions; Hannah's Quilting; Whitewash; Sayings and Doings; Lovely illustration of a fancy dress ball; Interesting illustration of a pantomime party; Debenham's Vow - continued; Lovely walking dress; Pacific Railway Dining Car - nice illustration on-board the dining car on the Union Pacific Railway; humor; and more. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: The Song of the Wind; Cover photo of winter wrappings for children from 1 to fourteen years old; Little Things; Manners Upon the Road; New York Fashions - winter wrappings, winter bonnets, round hats, kid gloves, new fabrics; Personal; Sweets of Married Life; Cravats, Fichus, Collars; Velvet hats and bonnets; Margaret's Share; Uncongeniality; Gorgeous centerfold illustraions of Ladies' Winter Wrappings; The Cryptogram - continued; Before leaving for the war - illusration of a praying scene in Brittany; Crochet and Passementerie Trimmings for Winter Wrappings; Silk Cord Edging; Crochet Edging; Silk Cord Edging; Passementerie and Crochet Trimmings for winter wrappings; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: General instructions for Knitting and Crochet Work; Girls' Crochet Hoods; New York Fashions - winter bonnets, chatelaine braids, head-dresses, jet and gold, feather trimmings; Personal; Girl's Crochet Boa; Crochet under-skirt for child from 1 to 3 years old; Embroidered borders; First Love; Lovely fashion hoods - but there is a small clipping from this page (741); Paris Modes; Schiller's Nose; Sayings and Doings; Felt Round Hat; Velvet Round Hat; Artot Bonnet; Children at Church; Bonnets; Debenham's Vow - continued; Paris Gossip; crochet and netted fanchon with ruche trimming; velvet muff with knitted strips; Netted trimming for fanchons, fichus, etc.; Lady's Knitted Vest; Crochet Stitches for Hoods, Fichus, etc.; Blunders of Old Masters; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Cover illustrations of Paletots; Before the Doctor Comes; Chances of Marriage; A Stick of Candy; New York Fashions - cloaks, velvet and its garnitures, cloth cloakings, plush and cashmere, prices; personal; Passementerie Cloak Trimmings; How We Parted - by Annie Thomas; Wonderful centerfold shows nineteen women wearing various mantelets; Debenham's Vow - continued; Father Hyacinthe; Serpentine Braid and Crochet Collar; Humor; and more. Average wear. 9" x 5" clipping from page 718. Book
186916 pages. Contents: Gros Grain Dress with High Waist; Bliss of Ignorance; New York Fashions - Velveteens, Trimming Velvets, Cashmere, Crinoline and Balmorals, Sashes and Cravat Bows, Laces Frills and Linen Collars, Jewelry, Gloves; Embroidered Silk Tobacco Pouch; Embroidered Silk Work or Key Basket; Embroidered Cover for Bible, Prayer-book, etc.; Fall Bonnets; Gros Grain Dress with High Waist; How to Talk; Bound to John Company - continued; Paris Fashions; Walking Dresses; Muslin Blouse; Muslin Blouse Waist; Sayings and Doings; Debenham's Vow - continued; Full-page humorous illustration of family scene called "Laid up in Ordinary"; Humor; and more. Beige staining to all pages. Average wear. Book
187016 pages. Contents: Trained Evening Dress (on cover); Mouldy Lemons; New York Fashions - millinery, frou frou gauze, lace, flowers, feathers, jet ornaments, round hats, Personal; 4"x4" chunk missing from top corner of page 595; Antimacassar of serpentine braid lace stitch, and crochet; Embroidered honey-comb coverlet; House and street dresses; Tulle Foundation for Blouses, Veils, Fichus; Crochet Rosette; Ladies' and Children's House and Street Dresses; Art of Bouquet Making; Out of the forest - a Story of Hungary - part IV; Pickles; Sayings and Doings; Two large beautiful illustrations by Edouard Dubufe entitled "The Conscript's Departure' and"The Conscript's Return"; For the Ugly Girls - No. IV; Paris Modes; The Cryptogram - continued; Morning in the desert; "Peaches and Milk" - nice illustration of two black children drawn by W.L. Sheppard; What One can Hit Upon; Humor; and more. Average wear. Book
1987ref. 780457PN. New. 1987. Soft Cover. Date is original print. This is a reprint edition. . PN paperback
1980127 pages. Illustrated in color and black and white. "Here for the firs time is a beautiful book on hats filled to the brim with practical and imaginative ideas for anyone familiar with using a needle and thread... Valuable guidance is also given on hats with a fashion context, showing how to match them up with clothes and other accessories, and to use them to complete a total look, as shown on the original pages of fashion sketches. Book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. Only light wear to attractive dust jacke which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy of this wonderful reference. Book