NOTHING TO WEAR: An Episode of City Life. (from Harpers Weekly.)
Illustrated by Hoppin, Published by Rudd & Carleton, New York, 1857.
 
Vintage from the 1850s
 
A humorous poem about well-to-do women in antebellum New York City and their struggle to find the right thing to wear.
 
Green blind-stamped hardcover with gilt title. String binding slightly shaken with a few cracks to the inner binding and a shifted spine. Some off-color stains to the cover. Moderately foxed pages. About 7 x 4-1/2 with 68 pages. Illustrated.