World of Fashion, And Montly Magazine of The Court of London, Fashions and Literature (Volume XV)

pp121-143, embellished with six hand-coloured fashion plates, complete with tissue-guards. Printed paper wrapper, stitched binding (heavily chapped, cracked on spine, a few short creases, and minor loss around base of spine). Internally neat and clean, but page edges a little worn and rough, and tissue-guards somewhat creased, one detached. Six beautiful hand-coloured fashion plate illustrations showing (1) Two peeresses in their coronation robes, to be worn at the coronation of Queen Victoria; the latest and newest fashions in evening dresses, 1838; the latest and newest fashions in morning and evening dresses, 1888; the latest and newest fashions in morning dress, 1837; the latest and newest fashions in morning dress, 1837; and finally the last and newest fashions in morning dress, 1838. An apparently contemporary hand-colour pin-pattern, fragile and tanned, laid in, Includes articles on Courtly Life in May 1838, Lord Burghersh's Opera; theatre and opera reviews; some poetry verses, detailed fashion notes and a history of the peerage of Viscount Combermere etc.