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1857 Nothing to Wear: An Episode of City Life
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Description
First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first book edition of this poem. First published anonymously in Harper's Weekly in the same year.
In the publisher's original cloth binding.
'Nothing to Wear' stands as William Allen Butler's most popular satirical poem, which tells of the fashion dilemmas of Flora M'Flimsy, a society lady of New York.
Decorated with a frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations by Augustus Hoppin. Collated, complete.
Condition
In the original blind-stamped cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and marks to the boards. Darkening to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With scattered spotting to the contents.
Very Good
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