DEMOREST'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE (12 ISSUES: 1874)
New York: W.Jennings Demorest, 1874. Leather-bound. Bound together, Twelve issues: January - December, 1874. pp. 480. Illuistrated with 11 out of the 12 colored plates, eleven fold-out drawings, and many engravings. Half calf over pebbled cloth. GIlt title and five raised bands with gilt bandlines to spine. Rubbing to extremities. Corners nudged and showing. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1874, to front flyleaf. Several fold-outs have creases. Spine and hinges tight. Very Good. Item #87702
William Jennings Demorest (1822–1895) was an American magazine publisher, prohibition leader, and businessman from New York City. In collaboration with his second wife, Ellen Demorest, née Curtis, he attained international success from his wife's development of paper patterns for sewing fashion apparel of the day. Together, they built a fashion manufacturing and merchandising empire from it. He and his wife launched five magazines and started a cosmetics company. He individually patented a sewing machine and a velocipede.
Demorest harbored lifelong political and religious aspirations. He is widely known for being a Prohibition activist and ran for Mayor of New York City on the Prohibition ticket. He also organized the Anti-Nuisance League. (from Wikipedia).
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