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The American Ladies’ Memorial: an Indispensable…
Boston: Published at 60 ½ Cornhill, 1850
First edition
HQ1221 A534 1850

A guide to acceptable behavior for nineteenth-century American ladies, with emphasis on acceptable occupations and amusements. From this little book, the lady may learn about etiquette, embroidery, lacework, dress-making, millinery, floral arrangements, toilette and much, much more. The lady is helped with woodcut illustrations throughout, including numerous embroidery and lacework patterns. Yellow printed wrappers, stitched at the spine.