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JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES MODES.June 1, 1912-August 1, 1914. Complete set of 79 volumes. 186 hors text illustrations including beautiful pochoir plates by Barbier (including 2 unnumbered plates by him), Broders, Gose, Lepape, Brunelleschi, Taquoy, and many others. Essays and notes by Jean Cocteau, Anatole France. 227x140mm; 9x5 1/2 inches. 8vo, contents loose and uncut as issued in original blue, green or buff wrappers, scattered wear, some slightly chipped or soiled, a few split or slightly torn at spine; occasional foxing to plate margins but most bright and clean, lacks cloth sample in final volume as usual; custom blue cloth folding box with gilt-lettered brown calf spine labels, some soiling and rubbing to extremities. Each volume containing title-page and colophon bearing a different number from an edition of 1250 on Holland. Paris: Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames, 1912-14
a complete set of the great french fashion journal illustrated by the most important names of the pre-World War I era. Le Journal des Dames was self-published and appeared three times a month and featured between one and five pochoir fashion plates along with poetry, essays, and notes by current writers. Before it ceased publication upon the outbreak of the war, 79 fascicles were produced, rendering it a splendid chronicle of the times. Colas 1567; Hiler 486; Carteret IV, 217.
