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We offer for sale, separately, the six consecutive monthly issues of The Lady's Monthly Museum or Polite Repository for the first six months of the year 1800 which had been bound as one volume. (all now sold)

As often happened with such periodicals the original outer wrappers had been discarded and a new title page and index had been added to the bound volume. In time this volume had become so worn that it was starting to fall apart, in fact some pages of text were already missing. Normally when such a volume reaches this stage any plates would be salvaged and the remainder thrown away.

Loath to throw away anything which might shed light on our social history of over 200 years ago we have separated the volume into its original monthly parts (which didn't take much doing), each with its original hand coloured fashion plate for that month (measuring just over 6.5 inches by 8 inches) and we offer them for sale below. The original volume title page is with the January issue and we have included a facsimile of it with each other month.

A Society of Ladies : The Lady's MONTHLY MUSEUM or POLITE REPOSITORY of Amusement and Instruction, being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind or exalt the Character of THE BRITISH FAIR

Usual catalogue: Miscellaneous

Vernor and Hood, London, 1800, Volume 4, January, [iv], 1-84pp, pictorial title and engraved portrait frontis (HRH Caroline, Princess of Wales), double page hand coloured fashion plate, : the January 1800 issue of the late Georgian ladies' monthly magazine, subsequently bound as part of half-year volume and now disbound, a collection of news, travel, reviews, stories, poetry, letters and advice for ladies including a feature on HRH Princess of Wales, regular feature The Old Woman: The Complaint of a Heart (An Elegy), a description of Tippoo Sultaun's Zenana, The Ruins of St. Oswald (A Romance) chapters I and II, Rules for Writing and Speaking Correctly, A Sketch of Lord Lyttleton's Park at Hagley, a Review of Female Literature, etc., well rubbed at extrems., disbound, no outer wrappers, fragments of leather adhering to spine, light foxing and nicks to edges,

Book reference no: 37976 - Price: £15.00  Sold
 

[A Society of Ladies] : The Lady's MONTHLY MUSEUM [or POLITE REPOSITORY of Amusement and Instruction, being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind or exalt the Character of THE BRITISH FAIR]

Usual catalogue: Miscellaneous

[Vernor and Hood, ] [London], [1800], Volume 4, February, 85-168pp, double page hand coloured fashion plate, monotone facsimile of volume title page, : the February 1800 issue of the late Georgian ladies' monthly magazine, subsequently bound as part of half-year volume and now disbound, a collection of news, travel, reviews, stories, poetry, letters and advice for ladies including some Irish Customs, regular feature The Old Woman: Character of a Good Neighbour and Character of a Good Wife, The Ruins of St. Oswald (A Romance) chapters III and IV, a Memorial of Madame Dufour, Changes in French Fashions, several cautionary tales including a Letter from a Seduced Female, etc., well rubbed at extrems., disbound, no outer wrappers, fragments of leather adhering to spine, light foxing and nicks to edges,

Book reference no: 37977 - Price: £12.00 Sold
 

[A Society of Ladies] : The Lady's MONTHLY MUSEUM [or POLITE REPOSITORY of Amusement and Instruction, being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind or exalt the Character of THE BRITISH FAIR]

Usual catalogue: Miscellaneous

[Vernor and Hood, ] [London], [1800], Volume 4, March, 169-240pp, double page hand coloured fashion plate, monotone facsimile of volume title page, : the March 1800 issue of the late Georgian ladies' monthly magazine, subsequently bound as part of half-year volume and now disbound, a collection of news, travel, reviews, stories, poetry, letters and advice for ladies including a feature on the Frederica Charlotta Ulrica Duchess of York, regular feature The Old Woman, The Ruins of St. Oswald (A Romance) chapters V and VI, articles on Private Theatres, the Advantages of the Abolition of religious houses, continuing Changes in French Fashions, etc., well rubbed at extrems., disbound, no outer wrappers, fragments of leather adhering to spine, lacks engraved plate of Duchess of York, light foxing and nicks to edges,

Book reference no: 37978 - Price: £12.00 Sold
 

[A Society of Ladies] : The Lady's MONTHLY MUSEUM [or POLITE REPOSITORY of Amusement and Instruction, being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind or exalt the Character of THE BRITISH FAIR]

Usual catalogue: Miscellaneous

[Vernor and Hood, ] [London], [1800], Volume 4, April, 241-324pp, engraved portrait of Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, double page hand coloured fashion plate, monotone facsimile of volume title page, : the April 1800 issue of the late Georgian ladies' monthly magazine, subsequently bound as part of half-year volume and now disbound, a collection of news, travel, reviews, stories, letters, poetry and advice for ladies including a brief feature on Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, regular feature The Old Woman, The Ruins of St. Oswald (A Romance) chapters VII, VIII and IX, Memoirs of Hypolite Clairon, Advice to Husbands, Domestic Animosities, Hints to Young Married Women, Femail Biography, continuing Changes in French Fashions, etc., well rubbed at extrems., disbound, no outer wrappers, fragments of leather adhering to spine, light foxing and nicks to edges,

Book reference no: 37979 - Price: £12.00 Sold
 

[A Society of Ladies] : The Lady's MONTHLY MUSEUM [or POLITE REPOSITORY of Amusement and Instruction, being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind or exalt the Character of THE BRITISH FAIR]

Usual catalogue: Miscellaneous

[Vernor and Hood, ] [London], [1800], Volume 4, May, 325-408pp, engraved portrait HRH Princess Royal, Duchess of Wirtemburg, double page hand coloured fashion plate, monotone facsimile of volume title page, : the May 1800 issue of the late Georgian ladies' monthly magazine, subsequently bound as part of half-year volume and now disbound, a collection of news, travel, reviews, stories, letters, poetry and advice for ladies including a brief feature on the Princess Royal, regular feature The Old Woman, The Ruins of St. Oswald (A Romance) chapters X and XI, The Female Mentor: The Incautious Marriage and Fatal Obstinacy, On the Pernicious Custom of Ladies Painting Themselves, etc., well rubbed at extrems., lacks pages 387-396, disbound, no outer wrappers, fragments of leather adhering to spine, light foxing and nicks to edges,

Book reference no: 37980 - Price: £10.00 Sold
 

[A Society of Ladies] : The Lady's MONTHLY MUSEUM [or POLITE REPOSITORY of Amusement and Instruction, being an assemblage of whatever can tend to please the Fancy, interest the Mind or exalt the Character of THE BRITISH FAIR]

Usual catalogue: Miscellaneous

[Vernor and Hood, ] [London], [1800], Volume 4, June, 409-490pp, engraved portrait Countess of Derby), double page hand coloured fashion plate, index, monotone facsimile of volume title page, : the June 1800 issue of the late Georgian ladies' monthly magazine, subsequently bound as part of half-year volume and now disbound, a collection of news, travel, reviews, stories, letters, poetry and advice for ladies including a brief feature on Elizabeth Countess of Derby, The Ruins of St. Oswald (A Romance) final chapter XII, Mrs. Saveall's Complaint against the Generality of Servants, regular feature The Old Woman, Theatrical Reviews, etc., well rubbed at extrems., disbound, no outer wrappers, fragments of leather adhering to spine, light foxing and nicks to edges,

Book reference no: 37981 - Price: £12.00 Sold