The Ladies' Repository (Volume XXIX, Old Series; Volume IV, New Series, July 1869)

Edge and corner wear; scuffed and scratched; spine is creased; shelf worn; some light foxing; 5" split in the base of the spine of the wrapper; overall a very crisp and clean used copy! Beige and black illustrated wrapper with black lettering. 80 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white original steel engravings! "Ladies' Repository. A General Literary and Religious Magazine for the Family. Each number contains eighty superroyal octavo pages, double column; printed on the finest calendered paper, and is embellished with two original Steel Engravings, in the highest style of the art, and several first-class wood illustrations For amount and quality of reading matter, for mechanical execution and illustrations, the Repository stands high among the best magazines published in the country." Contents include: "Engravings: False Pretenses. Christina Rossetti. Handel and Bach - German by Frances A. Shaw. / Chronicles of a Bay State Family by Mrs. Meta Lander. / The Friendship of Jesus by Mrs. Helen H. S. Thompson. / No More Sea by G. A. C. / The Angel's Song (Illustration) by Adelaide Anna Procter. / The Land of Burns (three Illustrations) by Rep. R. Harcourt. / The Abyssinian Bonda by H. A. Stern. / Aquaria (Two Illustrations). / The San Gabriel by Rev. B. F. Rawlins, D. D. / Chatterton and Redcliffe Church (Illustration). / The First Miracle (Illustration). / Miss Rossetti's Poems by Eliza Woodworth. / The Swallow (Illustration) by W. H. C. Hosmer. / Elijah on Mount Carmel by Merton Moore. / Society by Augusta M. Hubbard. / Minding One's own Business by Christian Treasury. / The Everlasting Arms by E. A. A. / Uncle John's Conversion by Donn Piatt. / The Mountain Stream by Mrs. Annie Howe Thomson. / The Story of the Locomotive - Second Article by Rev. R. H. Howard. / Dr. Lange by Rev. H. Graham. / Small Sacrifices by H. Josephine Wolfe. / May Flowers by Mrs. Mary E. Nealy. / Mount Calvary by William Baxter. / An Afternoon in the Glen by Mrs. J. E. M'Conaughy. / Willie's Wish, and what Came of It by Edith Walford. / Nothing." --- and many more historical essays and articles of interest. (Volume XXIX, Old Series; Volume IV, New Series, July 1869).…