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Wonderful image from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1877. Full title is The Trysting Place, by the willow. (see story, “A point of honor”.
Edges a bit tattered but easily covered with mat.

Wonderful image from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1877. The full title says, “House-dress: Back. Black Lace Fichu”, with the word dress mispelled as “dbess”.

Wonderful image from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1877. Click on image to see both the front and back of the page. The back is another Breton Jacket and a New Style Straw Hat.

Wonderful image from Peterson’s Magazine, May 1877. Click on image to see both the front and back of the page.

Lovely lithos by Rudolf Dikenmann that have been hand colored. The colorist pencil signed these prints but I can’t verify his name. It looks like E. Reinert.

About the La Belle Assemblée John Bell (1745-1831) ran Bell’s Circulating Library, which c. 1778-1780, according to one of its catalogues had “above fifty thousand volumes (English, Italian, and French) in history, antiquities, voyages …” La Belle Assemblee was also sometimes called Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine or the Court Magazine and Belle Assemblee. The […]

A beautiful hand colored litho from 1808 from La Belle Assemblee magazine.
Additional information in “About the artists” section.

Actual page from Godey’s magazine. Full page shows where it was pulled from the staples. Lovely image with plenty of room for matting around trouble areas as shown in image.