This auction is for an 1884 original edition of " Harper's Bazar" published by Harper & Brothers, New York. Six months of weekly issues from July-Dec. 1884. 418-840 Pages. Elephant Folio. Measures 11 1/2 x 16" tall. Bound in leather with paper over boards. Illustrated with 100's of full-page, double page, and in text black and white illustrations.
Harper's Bazar was an American weekly women's fashion magazine that was first published in 1867. The focus was for women in the middle to upper socio-economic classes in the mid 19th century. The fashions were provided from Paris and the German newspaper Bazar.
The articles included everything of interest to the family circle, devoted to ladies and the interests such as fashion, essays on etiquette, the arts, gardening, household and domestic affairs.
It's interesting to note that during the late Victorian/Edwardian period, as the women's suffrage movement was gaining momentum (American women did not all win the right to vote until 1920), the magazine offered elegantly handy hints on living well. "A Repository of Fashion, pleasure, and instruction, was now showing more tailored dresses and jackets as women had new sense of empowerment. The first few decades addressed everything from the avant-garde (trousers for Women) to running a country home; the best gowns of the Newport, Rhode Island, social scene and the subtle art of facial expression. Bazaar also began profiling prominent socialites, such as the Astors and the Griscoms, personalities who continue to capture our attention generations later.
In 1901 Harper's became a monthly and in 1929 its title was changed to Harper's Bazaar, and became the oldest continuously published fashion magazine in the world. Now at 142 years old and still in publication today.
Partial Contents include...
Lady and Gentleman; New York Fashions; Paris Fashions by Emmeline Raymond; Personal; Needlework and Fashions; "At Home" Dress; Historical Costumes; Egyptian Antiquities;
A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade; The Education of Women in the East; A Portrait of an Admiral; A Costly Wedding Gown by Emily F. Wheeler; The Drawbacks of Riches; Sketches in Alaska; Useful Recipes; Some Florida "Cracker" Cooking; Facetiae; What Shall We Do With Our Young Women?; Winter Wrappings; The Mouth, Teeth, Jaw, and Chin; The Nose; The Hair and the Ears; The Commonplace Young Man; Embroidered Decorations in Churches; Sketches in Jamaica; The Care of Infants; Some Hints to Travellers; Hints for Visitors to the New Orleans Exposition;
Speaking the Truth; A Wonderful Touch of Handiwork; Books for Holiday Presents;
Housekeeping in Paris; A Woman's Influence; Miss Tommy; Wedding Presents; Young Girls' SummerToilettes; Becoming Shoes and Stockings; Summer Toilettes; Trust Funds; Royal Invitations; Dolls; A Mother Goose Party; Infants' Clothing
Theatrical "Make-Up"; The Headache; American and English Etiquette Contrasted; A Royal Teacher of Needle-work; Right Royal were the Courtesies; The Union (poem) by George Edgar Montgomery; A Midsummer Madness by Fanny Foster Clark; Styles in Thibet; Military Song of Long, Long Ago
"The Field of the Cloth of Gold"
A Moral Exigency by Mary E.Wilkins; Women and Civil Service Reform by Catherine Baldwin; English Table Manners and Social Usages; The Art of Arranging Flowers; A Holiday Experiment in Cooking; Theatrical Dressing; A Certain Standard; English and American Hands and Finger-Nails; Country Toilettes; French Breeding and Dressing; Aunt Magillop's Tea-Cups by Harriet Prescott Spofford; The Return of an Old Friend; Affectations; The Health of Intellectual Women; Something about the Honey-Bee; Canadian Views; How We Papered a Room; Lady and Gentleman; Egyptian Antiquities; Ocean Lap Robe; At a Perfumer's; Wedding Dress; Ye Old-Time Courtesie Books; Co-operative House-keeping;
My Pamela and My Pumps by Mrs. Launt Thompson; The Forehead and Eyebrows;
Astral Influences; Hints for Housewives; Slips of the Tongue; Social Gossip; One's Own House; Watering-Place and Sea-Side Fancies Abroad; The Follies of Fashion;
Valenciennes Lace Dress; Modern Complexions; Old Wives; How To Do It; The Family Tree; Spectacles--Why We Need Them; How to be Pretty; English Bonnet Sewers;
This copy is in Very Good condition!! The boards are clean and tight. The binding and hinges are solid and tight. The pages are clean, bright and unmarked. There is no foxing, no writing or markings. Some closed tears on the page edges. 1 torn page. All pages and illustrations are present and in very good condition. An excellent addition to a library or collection.
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