The American toilet, ca. 1827.

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The American toilet, ca. 1827.

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A hand-made book based on the 1827 printed work of the same title by Hannah Murray. In both works, each page displays a drawing with a caption and a rhyming couplet. A section of the design is separately attached and can be lifted up to display a hidden virtue. For example, the lip salve is cheerfulness and the rouge is modesty. In this hand-made book, the drawings are in pencil and inscriptions are in ink, executed on paper with an embossed border. The order of the pages in this book does not precisely match that of the printed work. Also, the drawings are not always the same. For example, the earrings in the 1827 book are clusters of grapes, but in this home-made version, the earrings are fuchsia blossoms. The biggest difference is with the head ornament, as the printed version displays the ornament on the head of a woman, whereas the home-made drawing only shows the ornament, and the ornament is of a different sort from the printed version. A few other minor differences between the two versions are also present.

1 v. (2o leaves) : ill. ; 12 cm.

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Murray, Mary, 1961-

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Daughter of New York City merchant John Murray (1737-1808) and Hannah Lindley Murray (d. 1839). Mary Murray was an accomplished linguist and, working in collaboration with her sister Hannah, is known to have composed or assisted in several translations of literary works from the Italian, French, and Latin. From the description of Diaries, 1808, 1817, 1819, 1825. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 58770588 ...

Murray, Hannah Lindley, 1777-1836

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According to the 1867 edition of this work, sisters Hannah and Mary Murray of New York designed "The Toilet" by cutting out pictures from papers and pasting them into blank books, writing the inscriptions themselves. They sold these booklets to raise money for charities. Eventually, the idea was adapted to a printed version, copies of which are in the Rare Books area of the Winterthur Library. From the description of The American toilet, ca. 1827. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat recor...