Godey's lady's book 1862 Jan -June; Jul - Dec
Godey's Lady's Book for 1862, the Philadelphia monthly edited by Sarah Josepha Hale and published by Louis A. Godey for middle-class American women, carrying fashion plates, needlework patterns, fiction and household advice. The wood engravings isolate garments and trimmings against blank ground — hooped skirts, ruffled capes, crocheted collars, sleeves and bonnets — rendered in fine hatching that reads well as line art for cut-out silhouettes, pattern borders and period costume reference.
