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Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married.
Wedding souvenir book with manuscript additions
Arranged and anthologized by a married woman, this collection of love and marriage features both poetry and prose. The anthology features works by women poets and authors such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Jean Ingelow, Mrs. Sigourney, Dinah Mulock Craik, Louisa C. Tuthill, Mrs. Mary Howitt, and the Countess of Gifford.
Bound in white cloth, Married Life was designed as a partly blank book to be completed as a wedding souvenir. An engraved wedding certificate-like leaf records the 1912 marriage of a couple in Philadelphia, a handwritten list records their wedding guests.
A well-preserved artifact and an fairly early American dust jacket.
Description: Married Life. A Blessing to the Truly Married.
Philadelphia: The Griffith & Rowland Press, (1893) 1902. [1]–4, [1 (certificate), 5–61, [3 (blank)]pp. 7½ x 5½ inches. Publisher’s cloth with gilt titling and decoration on upper cover; all edges gilt. Certificate and four partly printed leaves completed in manuscript. Near fine in a very good dustwrapper.
[3728934]Price: $75.00