[Rarebooks] FS: Fortune-telling for Victorian Ladies

[Bob Petrilla]

Dumont, Henrietta.  THE LADY'S ORACLE: An Elegant Pastime for Social
Parties and the Family Circle.  Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss,
1852.  First edition thus.  270pp; illuminated extra-title by W. Croome,
lithographed by T. Sinclair, Phila.  Bound in red cloth with elaborate
gilt-stamped pictures and decorations on spine and both covers, all edges
gilt.  With the old pencil signature of Elmira Stevenson and the custom
bookplate of Hiram Edmund Deats, Flemington, N.J., a well-known historian,
philatelist, and book collector.  Traces of light foxing here and there,
still a nice, bright example. 7.25" x 4.75".

"...Directions for consulting the oracle. The person who holds the book
asks the question.  The person whose fortune is to be read selects any one
of the fifty answers under that question, say No. 10, and the questioner
reads aloud the answer No. 10, which will be the oracle...." (page 12).
&c., &c.  [The extra, illuminated title-page was not present in the first
printing of this work.]  $150.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



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