The Mother's Assistant and Young Lady's Friend Vol. XIX No. 1 - 5 January - July 1850
Boston: William C. Brown, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 142 + 142. Illustrated with engravings, tissue guards. Table of contents. Bound in embossed black cloth, gilt stamped device front and back in blind stamped rules and decoration. Blind stamped rules and gilt stamped title on the spine. Edges trimmed. Endpaper ink manuscript "Josephine Judson from Sarah K. Cushing." Annotations partially erased. Spine ends chipped, corners rubbed. Good+. Item #5161
Moral education in prose, verse, music and engravings. Includes an eleven-stanza poem by Sarah T. Bolton "On the Death of Edgar A. Poe" reprinted from the N. Y. Home Journal in the January 1950 issue. Cover preserved in a removable clear archival jacket.
Price: $75.00