Home Chat: Bound Edition of December 5, 1908 thru March 13, 1909

London, England: Amalgamated Press, 1909. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, brown cloth boards with gilt text on spine. Exterior shows some scuffing and spotting along with edge and corner wear. The front board has an area in the upper right where the cloth is starting to pull away from the backing. The internal binding is good and text pages are tight. No hinge issues, no library markings, no signatures or bookplates. Only evidence of handwriting found is on the front and page where something was penciled in the upper right corner and then later erased (mostly). This is a bound edition of the Home Chat magazine, which was published as a woman's weekly magazine covering such things as society gossip and domestic tips along with short stories, dress patterns, recipes and competitions. The book begins with the December 5, 1908 issue with the page number starting at 561. This numbering ends at December 12, 1908 with page number 688. The numbering starts again on the December 19, 1908 issue with page 1 and ends at page 624 for the March 13, 1909 issue. One of the editors was Maud Brown in the articles show various authors and artists including the serial story "A Little Imposter" by Esther Miller. There are also numerous comics and humorous stories for young girls such as the series Jungle Jinks, Tibbie and Smut (the story of two little kittens who stole the cream), Tippy and Tuppy and Tod. There are other articles such as Society Small Talk, Why I Am a Suffragist The Playbox, Christmas Hymns, The Young Mother, A Home-Made Muff, and many others. Pages also includes many early turn-of-the-century advertisements for everything from pleurisy to clothing to soup and other items catering to women of that timeframe. Pages are quite toned due to age and type of paper used. There is some spotting and foxing present, though nothing serious. There is no index in each edition starts with the text page so there are no magazine covers. It is not known if this was a private binding of the magazines or they were published this way, but this is a private copy and does not have any library references or anything like that.