Lady's magazine selections
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1845
Place of publication: [Philadelphia, Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fashion; Women's periodicals, American; American newspapers; American literature; Reviews; Books; Intellectual life
Other titles: Ladies' national magazine.; Graham's magazine (Philadelphia, Pa.); Godey's lady's book (Philadelphia, Pa.); Columbian magazine (New York, N.Y.)
Notes: Spine title.

Two columns to the page.

A copy of explanatory letter, from The Lincoln Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana, dated Aug. 7, 1996, regarding the 1846 Godey's lady's book, accompanies the book.

Includes decorative title page for Ladies' national magazine for the year 1846.

Publisher varies: Ladies' national magazine published by C.J. Peterson, Columbian magazine by I. Post, Graham's magazine by G.R. Graham, and Godey's lady's book by L.A. Godey.

Book, bound in marbled boards with leather spine, gold embossed lettering on spine.

Includes an aticle, detached from the Reader's digest, entitled Sarah Hale and her "Lady's book" written by Dorothy Walworth (p. 42-46).
Table of contents: title: Ladies' national magazine (Vol. 9, no. 1, Jan., 1846); title: Ladies' national magazine (Vol. 8, no. 5, Nov. 1845); title: The Columbian magazine (Vol. 5, no. 6, June, 1846); title: Graham's magazine (Vol. 28, no. 2, Aug. 1845); title: Graham's magazine (Vol. 28, no. 5, Nov. 1845); title: Godey's lady's book (Vol. 32, Jan. 1846).