8vo. xii, 348pp. With an additional engraved title page, engraved portrait frontispiece, and a further 19 further engraved plates. Original publisher's dark green roan-backed green paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine, A.E.G. Rubbed and marked, with wear to extremities, and some toning to boards. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst to FEP; taped-in business card of G. A. Varty of the Lake District Herald to rear blank fly-leaf. Spotting and damp-staining to initial leaves and plates; lighter spotting to text.

The first edition of an American anthology of literary snippets and short stories aimed at educated women, accompanied by numerous detailed engravings, including several pieces by noted American lithographer and businessman George Whitefield Hatch (1805 - 1867).