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Bound collection of issues No. 1 to 60 from the 27th year of the magazine, from 5 January to 31 October 1823. Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, 1789-1871.Plates numbered 2121 to 2194, missing 2160-2162, 2170, 2191-2193, several out of order, but a total of 64 fine fashion plates. La Mesangere (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Brown leather spine, black leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with brown marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed, front hinge weak, plates slightly browned and spotting with usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).

Rare collection of 170 large fashion plates from the Edwardian era to the First World War, the Downton Abbey era.With 36 plates depicting women's fashions from the years 1915 to 1918, a very rare snapshot of wartime Paris modes.155 hand-coloured and 15 black-and-white lithographs by artists including Aline Goyot, BC and Josey, most with two women modeling the latest fashions. Includes several fancy-dress costumes, wedding dresses and hats, children's outfits and one double-page plate of bridesmaids.The Journal des Demoiselles was a French fashion magazine aimed at young women aged 14 to 18, and ran from 1833 to 1922. It was edited by Alain Thiery from 1910.A fascinating set of images that charts the evolution of women's dresses from the S-bend corset, "pigeon-breast" style of the Edwardian era through to the slim and elegant Empire style of the 1910s. The clothes featured are from the fashion houses Lucien Lelong, Jeanne Paquin, Rouff, Cassiny, Bernard, Bechoff David, the Forcillon sisters, the Callot… Read More

Collection of 149 hand-colored copperplate engravings only from Pierre de La Mésangère's famous fashion magazine.Most women's fashion plates by the famous illustrator Louis Marie Lante, with 12 hat and bonnet plates by Victor Adam, taken from the issues February 1820 through to December 1821.Plates numbered 1878 to 2036, some missing and some out of order, total of 149 fine fashion plates. La Mésangère (1761-1831) was author, journalist and editor, and published the Journal from 1797 to 1839, covering the post-Revolutionary Directory era through the Napoleonic Empire and the Bourbon Restoration. Green leather spine, red leather labels with gilt decoration, boards with green marble paper. Condition: Binding scuffed but solid, plates clean and bright with slight spotting and usual crease down the centre (where the magazine was folded before binding).