A SUPPLEMENT

TO THE

LADY’S BOOK

Published by L.A. GODEY & CO.

At the Athenian Buildings, Franklin Place,

PHILADELPHIA

Price, $3 per Annum. (Payable in advance)

One of the cheapest Works ever offered to the public

In presenting to the public the October number of the LADY’S BOOK, the Proprietors feel much pleasure in inviting attention to a comparison between it and the preceding numbers. It will be perceived that a gradual, but decided improvement, has been effected in its embellishments; particularly in the department of costume fashions, which have been executed by KELLY; an artist who, in the Embellishment which accompanies this, has literally excelled himself; rendering the prints of Fashions of the LADY’S BOOK sufficiently excellent to compete with the best executed in London, and to surpass those of Paris. Hence, the public will perceive that the hopes of progressive improvement, which the proprietors of the Lady’s Book have expressed to their patrons, have been fully realized.

A very material change is observable in the reading department of the Lady’s Book which improvement will proceed, to, at least, be sustained, by the exertions of its contributors; and, as a further expression of their gratitude to a patronizing community, the publication for January, 1834, will contain twenty-four additional pages, and the whole number will be exclusively devoted to and composed of ORIGINAL subjects—every article written expressly for the work.

Among the contributors on this occasion may be enumerated Miss Leslie, author of the Prize Tale entitled “Mrs. Washington Potts”—Mrs. Hentz, author of the Prize Tragedy—the late Mrs. Gilbert—Joseph R. Chandler, Esq.—J.A. Shea, author of Adolph, Address to the Ocean, &c.—the author of “A Tale of Fashionable Life”­—the author of “Sketches of a Jurist-Consult”—Y.P.—A.E.—and other well-known and popular writers, whose productions have given so peculiar a delight to the readers of the Lady’s Book. This publication has been always distinguished for its beautiful engravings of the Fashions, but it is the intention of the proprietors to render the one for January still more splendid than the previous ones. The public will perceive that, without heralding it by professions, a reference to past experience is the best promise of future exertions, which it shall be the publishers’ study to render both prompt and pleasing.