Wonderful antique Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly Book...January 1890 - June 1890
Book is intact. Much wear to cover. Might be a slight tear somewhere in book. It is very good condition for it's age.
This Book is filled with wonderful fiction, non-fiction, history, etc...Contains 6 wonderful color lithograph plates at the beginning of each month. Ad's for items manufactured in the time. Just a wonderful piece of reading.
Frank Leslie's Weekly, later often known in short as Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1852 and continuing publication well into the 20th century. It was started by publisher order and illustrator Frank Leslie and was continued after his death in 1880 by his widow, the women's suffrage campaigner Miriam Florence Leslie.
Leslie's Weekly offered perspective on politics, society, the environment, culture, poems, stories, articles, as well as hand-tinted fashion plates which provide a record of the progression of women's dress and fashion advice.
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Product code: Frank Leslie's order Popular Monthly...Volume 29...January 1890 through June 1890...Antique Book