To the Ladies of My Country. How to Be Your Own Manicure

by Mary E. Cobb

$450 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York, 1884. 24mo 5.625” x 4.625” , chromolithographic wrappers. 32 pp., illus. CONDITION: Very good, light wear to extremities. A scarce and richly-illustrated little volume designed to amuse, instruct, and advertise in the burgeoning art of the manicure, published by the female entrepreneur whose New York City salon launched the American nail care industry.Beginning with

• Binding: Wrappers

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