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[FRENCH COSTUME]. HERMANN, Lucien Antoine (1886-1954). Gazette du Bon Ton Art-Modes & Frivolites. Paris, Berlin & London: Librairie Centrale Des Beaux-Arts, Paul Cassirer, and William Heinemann, Christmas 1913 – June 1914.


6 parts in one volume, 4to (244 x 190 mm). Title-pages printed in red and black, 22 plates with pochoir (2 double-page & folding), numerous in-text color illustrations and advertisements. (Some minor offsettingand light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine gilt-lettered, top edge gilt, others uncut (a few leaves becoming loose, some light soiling, a few tiny scuffs); a few original white ribbed printed wrappers bound neatly in .

6 original parts bound together of French Publisher Lucien Vogel’s first magazine, launched at the end of 1912. Vogel started Gazette du Bon Ton with his wife Yvonne (“Cosette”) de Brunhoff, who was the first editor-in-chief of Vogue France when it was launched in 1920.

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