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"Godey's Lady's Book"

American Fashions • circa 1840s-1870s

Original 150-plus-year-old hand-colored lithographs (chromolithographs) and engravings (both hand-colored and black and white)
Sheet size: approximately 9.5 x 6 inches but size does vary

Fashion plates were hand-colored engravings and color lithographs that appeared in women’s magazines. Since clothing could not be obtained ready-made, these plates provided information to dressmakers and home sewers on the latest fashion trends. In the United States many of the engravings and lithographs were copied from plates in French magazines. The two most popular American women’s magazines during the Civil War were Godey’s Lady’s Book and Peterson’s Magazine.

Plate 1

Plate 2

Plate 3
Plate 3

Plate 4

Plate 5

Plate 6

Plate 7

Plate 8

Plate 9

Plate 10

Plate 11

Plate 12

Plate 13

$20
(see enlargement for note)

Plate 14

Plate 15

Plate 1

Latest fashions for Godey's Lady's Book

$10
(discoloration, edge tears, ragged edge)

Plate 2

The Bride

$25
(minor age toning)

Plate 3

untitled

$15
(minor age toning, rumpling, tear on left side)

Plate 4

An Outdoor Scene

$15
(age toning)

Plate 5

Dressed for a Party

(age toning)

Plate 6
(11 3/4 x 9 3/4 Double plate, with original center fold)

Godey's Fashions for January 1873

$35
(minor age toning, edge/corner wear)

Plate 7
(11 3/4 x 9 3/4 Double plate, with original center fold)

Godey's Fashions for August 1871

$35
(minor age toning, edge/corner wear/short tears, unobtrusive light creases, paper loss upper middle edge)

Plate 8
(11 3/4 x 9 3/4 Double plate, with original center fold)

Godey's Fashions for October

$25
(minor age toning, edge/corner wear/short tears, rectangular area of discoloration on left side)

Plate 9
(11 3/4 x 9 3/4 Double plate, with original center fold)

Godey's Fashions for July 1868

$35
(minor age toning, edge/corner wear/short tears)

Plate 10

GODEY'S PARIS FASHIONS AMERICANIZED

1845

7.875 X 10 INCHES

$10
(age toning, short tears around edges)

Plate 11

GODEY'S AMERICANIZED PARIS FASHIONS

1863

7.5 X 10 INCHES

$15
(age toning)

[probably from "Godey's Lady's Magazine" from
March, 1841, but pencil inscription on print says Godey's 1845]

$20
(unobtrusive crease through image, light browning and foxing)