HARPER'S BAZAR: A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction, Volume VI

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. Leather. 840p. Ex-library. An oversize hardcover book with black leather spine and corners and green marbled boards. POOR CONDITION. Back cover and last page are completely detached. Edges heavily scuffed and boards lightly rubbed. Spine is crackly-looking and has an old sticker with the number 6 written on it. Small tear on the spine just above the word "Harper's." LACKS the title page and index. A few old library markings inside and some newsprint smudges here and there. Pages are a bit brittle with age, and will chip or tear if not handled gently. Small tanned spots in gutter of pages 306-307. Pages 565-568 are bound out of sequence. OFFERED AS-IS. Item #186254

Volume 6 of the ladies' fashion magazine HARPER'S BAZAR (later spelled HARPER'S BAZAAR), containing all weekly issues from January 4 through December 27, 1873, plus the supplement with Anthony Trollope's HARY HEATHCOTE OF GANGOIL. Filled with lots of excellent black and white engravings of women's fashions, hairstyles, and more. Features a 2-page spread depicting Santa Claus with his sack of toys, surrounded by cats and dogs; a 1-page, illustrated article about the wife of Benjamin Disraeli; commentary upon the death of Emperor Napoleon III of France; a 2-page spread depicting the Temple of Heaven in Beijing (Peking); a full-page illustration of Marie Antoinette preparing to approach the guillotine; installments of the novel LADY ANNA by Anthony Trollope; a recurring column on "George Eliot's Sayings"; an article on Fanny Stenhouse, a Mormon defector who wrote about the practice of polygamy; commentary on a visit by the Shah of Persia to Queen Victoria; and a portrait of Princess Dagmar of Denmark, eventual Czarina of Russia. Measures approx. 16" x 12"

Price: $185.00