Anonymous binding for ‘The Family Friend’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for ‘The Family Friend’

Unsigned

1884

Cloth binding with a lacquered chromolithographic insert.

10 x 7½ inches

This is a little-remembered but popular magazine of the 80s, published by Partridge and Co. as part of their brief to offer ‘improving literature’ to families and especially to those of artisans [Commentary continues below.]

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