THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, AND GATHERINGS OF THE WEST: A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEOTED TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION. Volume VI [and] VII by Tefft, B. F. (editor) - 1847

Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt and J. T. Mitchell, 1847. Full Leather. Good+ binding. Octavo. iv, 380, iv, 379, [1] pp., plates. In contemporary red morocco with decorative gilt on both covers and spine and previous owner name stamped in gilt on the front board. 24 issue, each with one or two engravings that serve as frontispieces, all present. Light rubbing and scuffing to the extremities; a bit of separation starting at the bottom of the rear joint, binding remains solid; contemporary gift inscription in pencil, and a later bookplate; contents with varying degrees of foxing and toning, particularly at the plates and the adjacent leaves; occasional owner pencil bracketing in the margins, but generally clean. Early volumes from a long-running Methodist periodical in a better than usual binding on this mid-century periodical.