Journal Des Dames et Des Modes - Tome LXXVI - LXXXVII
Lemaire, J.P. Frankfurt, January 1836 - December 1841

12 volumes, each containing 6 months of the weekly issues. 360 hand-colored plates. (8vo) 19.5x13.5 cm. (7¾x5¼”), period half calf and marbled boards, red and black labels.

A nice run of 6 consecutive years of this leading fashion journal of the mid 19th century.

Chronicles of Fashion, from the Time of Elizabeth to the Early part of the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Stone. London: Richard Bentley, 1845

Two volumes gilt morocco extra by Bayntun, with approximately 100 extra plates, 8vo, (good).

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“Fashion, who had found a haven and a home in the Court of Charles the Second, fled from its precincts during the occupation of his successors, the stern and unattractive William and Mary, the homely and indolent Anne, and the heavy and uninteresting German Elector. They had not any of them a spark of that brilliancy whose coruscations in the chambers of Whitehall had dazzled the eyes of beholders, and almost blinded them to the real nature of the orgies carried on within. We have seen that virtuous and irreproachable as Mary’s personal character was, she won none to her circle; she beguiled none of the votarists of the very questionable code of manners of her uncle’s and father’s day to imitate the purity and propriety of her own. It was not because she was virtuous, but because she was cold and repulsive, that Fashion fled away.”

-opening paragraph of Volume 2

Ouch.

earwigbiscuits:

Journal de la Mode et du Goût, ou amusemens du salon et de la toilette (1790) May 5, 1790 Plate 2. Issue no. 8. Fashionable dress

(via modernfoppery)

The Analysis of Beauty. Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of Taste
William Hogarth. London, r: W. Strahan, for Mrs. Hogarth, 1772.

Plus two engraved folding plates at rear, each with many figures illustration various aspects of beauty. (4to), later red morocco-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt. A New Edition.

The new edition of Hogarth’s work on beauty.

B-A Note: The subtitle of this just kills me. Yeah, good luck with that!

The corset considered: as a means to extend human life, and seek sustainable health (rough translation)
Zwolle, J.J. Tijl, 1831.

A satirical title this book. First Dutch edition of a book strongly warning young women against the fashion at the time of wearing far too tight bodices or corsets. The author, Georg Friedrich Most (1794-1845), was a medical doctor, as was the Dutch translator De Lespinasse.

L’Eventail
Octave Uzanne. Binding by Pawson & Nicholson. Paris: A. Quantin, 1882 .

Engraved illustrations and borders tinted blue, brown, rose, green or black by Paul Avril. 4to, full brown morocco with ornamented gilt panels, raised bands, inner dentelles, and all edges gilt, by Pawson & Nicholson of Philadelphia.

La Guirlande
Album mensuel d’Art et de Littérature, 1919 - 1920
Umberto Brunelleschi, artistic director

Edited by Jean Hermonovits, 13 original parts, (part 2 in duplicate), limited to 1 of 800 copies, illustrations by George Barbier, Zinoview, J.Saude, etc., loose in original decorated wrappers, later chemise and slipcase.

B-A Note: Had to dig around for info on this one. Turns out that it was a monthly Art Deco magazine, under the artistic direction of Brunelleschi. The other sources cite 11 issues, rather than the 13 mentioned in this item’s description. (Or 12, since it notes part 2 is duplicated). This auction also does not note which of the 800 editions this is.

From Leonard Fox Rare Books: “The literary contributions are illustrated with the work of Barbier, Brunelleschi, Vallee, Bonotte, Domergue and others, and the pochoir coloring is by Jean Saude. ” And from Ursus Books: “A veritable treasure-house of post-war fashion, most copies have long ago been dismembered for the plates.”