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Album de Coiffures Travesties Troisieme Serie.  Modeles de la Coiffure Francaise Illustree 1889 - 1907

Album de Coiffures Travesties Troisieme Serie. Modeles de la Coiffure Francaise Illustree 1889 - 1907

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Album de Coiffures Travesties Troisieme Serie. Modeles de la Coiffure Francaise Illustree 1889 - 1907

by A. Mallemont, directeur

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Paris: Albert Brunet, 1907. Full Morocco. Very Good. Folio, measuring 14 by 11 inches, 35.5 by 28 cm, containing 12 color plates (color lithography) featuring five heads (or busts) with historic, eccentric and/or fanciful hairstyles and dress. Facing the plates, on the tissue guards, are explanatory notes. The styles presented were probably intended to inspire costumes for fancy dress balls, then the rage. Now, as surely then, the figures can tickle and delight us, and this album is far less ponderous than the encyclopaedic tomes on costume such as Racinet or fashion periodicals of the period. Each figure is given a name, to which the fashion presented has drawn its inspiration, sometimes literally, other times more loosely. So we have an extravagant "Coiffure Moyen-Age", a "Cupidon", a "Petit Fetard", a funny "Medecin", a "Meduse", an "Oncle Sam", a "Manon", a "Pierrot President", "Carmen", "Cerises", a bizarre "Poire", a Madamoiselle "Mephisto", and on and on. Wraps bound in leather. Leather rubbed along edges, with vertical tear running length of spine, and spine thus partially perished. Ownership stamp of prior owner, a Hungarian, on edge of plates.

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Bookseller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
006575
Title
Album de Coiffures Travesties Troisieme Serie. Modeles de la Coiffure Francaise Illustree 1889 - 1907
Author
A. Mallemont, directeur
Format/Binding
Full Morocco
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Publisher
Albert Brunet
Place of Publication
Paris
Date Published
1907
Weight
0.00 lbs

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About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

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Folio
A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Morocco
Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
Spine
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