The Charm: A Series of Elegant Color Groups. With Descriptive Illustrations ELLET, Elizabeth F. 19TH CENTURY,PRINTING

6 hand-colored lithographs by J. Ackerman within elaborate blue & silver borders; chromolithographed half-title. 23 pages. Slim folio, watered red cloth stamped with ornate gilt flourishes. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1848. First Edition. Slight wear to the spine, but otherwise a bright, "charming" copy. Six romantic stories, each illustrated with a pair of elegantly costumed young women. "The acme of marvellous Victorian workmanship and silly Victorian art" - Whitman Bennett.