The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend

Boston: Cyrus Stone, 1853. Very Good. Boston: Cyrus Stone, 1853. First Edition. Two parts in one volume; octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's red pictorial cloth embossed in blind and gilt; 203; [4]-204pp. (complete despite pagination?); double frontispiece of two engravings, one of them hand-colored; ten leaves of plates throughout, half of them hand-colored plant specimens, myriad text illus. throughout. Cloth a bit scuffed at margins with exposure at corners, tiny chips at spine ends, plates foxed, else a Very Good and sound example.


Attractive annual comprised of poetry, morality tales, and advice on parenting. Missed by Faxon.