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Journal - Women's Journal, Curtis Publication Company, The Ladies' Home Journal 1891-95, ca. 1891

  • Brown hardcover, leather bound and leather reinforced corners, gold embossed lettering on spine

    Book with cover and spine, Standing

  • Fly page of book with printed text and line illustrations on cream paper

    Fly paper with details of book, upright

  • Top of a page with an article about ladies and stamp outfits

    Close-up of article

  • Printed and line illustrated article about model boats

    Close-up of article about model boats

  • Page with advertising print and line drawings

    Close-up of advertising page

  • Green label with floral border and text between two oval outline shapes

    Printed label, close-up

  • Inscription in black pen has been crossed out and another written in blue pen

    Close-up of inscription

  • Brown hardcover, leather bound and leather reinforced corners, gold embossed lettering on spine
  • Fly page of book with printed text and line illustrations on cream paper
  • Top of a page with an article about ladies and stamp outfits
  • Printed and line illustrated article about model boats
  • Page with advertising print and line drawings
  • Green label with floral border and text between two oval outline shapes
  • Inscription in black pen has been crossed out and another written in blue pen

Historical information

This is one of two books donated together and believed to have belonged to the Purvis family. The books were rescued from recycling. It has the name of C Purvis on the front endpaper. The other book from the same donor has the inscription "C. A. Purvis".

The inscription on the back endpaper of the other book belonging to C. Purvis is of interest, '"Edith Fox, Gheringhap, 1879"' as it is earlier than the earliest journal in that book. Perhaps it is the birth date of Edith. It is also interesting that an notice was printed in the Geelong Advertiser in 1922 stating that Edith Susan Fox of Box Hill had an interest in land in Gheringhap. Gheringhap is a town on the Midland Highway, Victoria, 15 km northwest of Geelong, and 6.7 km southeast of Bannockburn.

Significance

This is one of two journals of ladies' fashion, fancy work and stories that reflect the interests of the late 1800s. They are a useful source of historical information and the articles available for sale.

Physical description

The Ladies' Home Journal 1891- 95; a collection of women's journals in a burgundy hardcover book with a leather-bound spine and leather-reinforced corners. The journals are illustrated magazines and include fashion, fancy work and family reading, Published in Philadelphia, America by the Curtis Publishing Company. The binder was made by G Mercer, Geelong.
A printed blue label is on the inside front cover. An inscription is on the corner of the front fly page.

Inscriptions & markings

On spine: "THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL"
Within two concentric oval outlines "G. MERCER / GEELONG" and it nthe centre "BINDER"
Handwritten in black pen and crossed out "E. F."
Handwritten in blue pen "C. Purvis"

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