Fashion and Costume
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J.L. Taylor & Co. Dress Chart Fall & Winter 1933-34.
[TAILORING].Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00A scarce trade catalogue for the menswear firm J.L. Taylor, includes dozens of 'woollen' samples and elegantly illustrated showing sharply dressed...
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Le Goût du Jour.
LABOUREUR, Jean-Emile; BONFILS, Robert; BRISSAUD, Pierre; et al.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Art Deco style personified. A fine and rare complete set of one of the most beautiful fashion magazines to appear in France after the Great War; wi...
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King of Fashion;
POIRET, Paul; GUEST, Stephen Haden (translator).Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00The first English-language edition of Paul Poiret's autobiography, with a striking black and gold binding. Poiret wrote his autobiography after hi...
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Mail order catalogues
BIBAOriginal price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00Biba only produced six mail order catalogues and they rarely appear on the market. The unusual shape was so that they would go through letter boxe...
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Almanach...
BOUTET, Henri.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00A great run of this neat French almanac published under the aegis of French engraver & illustrator Henri Boutet, nicknamed 'little master of c...
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Journal des Dames et des Modes.
BARBIER, George.Original price £8,000.00 - Original price £8,000.00Original price £0.00£8,000.00£8,000.00 - £8,000.00Current price £8,000.00One of the most beautiful of the Art Deco fashion periodicals. A complete set of one of the most beautiful of the Art Deco fashion periodicals. Alt...
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Costumes de Rome et de Naples.
RUSPI, Ercole.Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £0.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00A Fine album of watercolours of Rome and Naples each signed by Ruspi.Ruspi trained at the Accademia di San Luca in Rome where he was active in the...
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Gazette du Bon Ton.
BARBIER, George; VOGEL, Lucien (editor).Original price £27,500.00 - Original price £27,500.00Original price £0.00£27,500.00£27,500.00 - £27,500.00Current price £27,500.00The greatest and the rarest of all the Art Deco fashion periodicals. The early 20th century was a time of dramatic change in fashion. The heavy clo...
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Des alten Nürnbergs Sitten und Gebräuche in Freud und Leid.
MAYER, Moritiz Maxmilian.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £1,500.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00Rare German costume book of the Nuremberg carnival Hand-coloured illustrations of carnival scenes, the second volume also contains a facsimile of ...
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Gazette du Bon Ton
BARBIER, George (and others), illustrator.Original price £6,000.00 - Original price £6,000.00Original price £0.00£6,000.00£6,000.00 - £6,000.00Current price £6,000.00It may have been short-lived but the Gazette du Bon Ton was hugely influential reflecting all the latest developments in fashion and lifestyle at ...
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Le Vrai & Le Faux Chic.
SEM [pseud. of Georges GOURSAT].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00La Belle Epoque. In this lively album Sem illustrates pre war fashion with numerous illustrations of fashionable ladies in fashionable hats.Georges...
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Les Masques et les Personnages de la Comédie Italienne.
BRUNELLESCHI, Umberto (artist); d'HOUVILLE, Gérard.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £7,500.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00Number 22 of a limited edition. A fine example complete with a full set of 12 engraved plates by Reidel after Brunelleschi, depicting theatrical ch...
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La Mode en mil neuf cent douze.
MARTIN, Charles (illustrator).Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £450.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00A beautiful and uncommon catalogue of hats created by the French milliner Marcelle Demay for her 1912 collection. She commissioned noted fashion i...
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Album of ink drawings.
[CHINESE SCHOOL].Original price £12,500.00 - Original price £12,500.00Original price £12,500.00£12,500.00£12,500.00 - £12,500.00Current price £12,500.00Fine collection of original drawings showing Chinese ceremonies, scenes from the Imperial court, portraits of Chinese nobility, musical instrument...
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Die Schuhmode - Winter 1924/25
[SHOE DESIGN CATALOGUE]Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00This unusual album of shoe designs contains designs for both men and women. Landscape folio (30 x 21 cm),.pp 54, 25 chromolithographed plates (im...
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Tissus "olympic" indechirables.
[FASHION].Original price £450.00 - Original price £450.00Original price £0.00£450.00£450.00 - £450.00Current price £450.00Four winter season examples of men's fashion.Folio. 4 full-page colour plates of men's fashion, 1 sheet with 4 original fabric samples, loose as i...
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