The plates for Le Bonheur du Jour wee amongst the largest and most carefully meditated of Barbier's designs. So ambitious was this album that it t...

Programme for Tzar Saltan, Started after the death of Diaghilev in 1929, the Opéra Privé de Paris was a continuation of the Ballets Russes. Co-dir...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have been most carefully sele...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

Scarce first edition. 'The sixty-three ladies' shoes now illustrated have all belonged to and been worn by ladies of the 19th century. They have b...

a 'happy new year' from Bakst to suffragist and author of The Story of a Modern Woman. This is a wonderfully personal letter from one of the most ...

An exquisite group of interior scenes, exclusively of noblewomen and ladies in waiting, engaging in various genteel activities, such as flower arr...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing Chinese deities and processional characters.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the inc...

Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...

Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...

Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...

Every body is doing it now!. Tangoville sur Mer featured caricature portraits of well-known men and women in France, including Coco Channel; Octave...

A fine group of Chinese export watercolours showing processions.Pith came into use for painting to satisfy the increasing demand for small, inexpe...

Copper-plate engraving. Inscribed in top margin, a very rich impression.

Copper-plate engraving.

Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accountrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdr...

Attributed to John Raphael Smith, these satires comprise part of a set of six.Two uncoloured mezzotints, slight flaking to edges of sheets not aff...

Copper plate engraving. Repairs to verso, small wormholes, otherwise a rich impression.

Copper plate engraving from Album des metiers. The artisan is dressed in the accoutrements of his occupation and set against a theatrical backdro...