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[LA MESANGERE].
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190
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[LA MESANGERE].
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
[LA MESANGERE].
[JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES MODES].
SET of 3 volumes of hand-coloured engravings.
3 in-8 volumes, two in contemporary pink glue-bound cardboard covers and one volume bound in contemporary red morocco-style sheepskin (wear to the cardboard covers, one spine missing, a few stains, scuffs and rubbing on the morocco, a few scattered foxing spots but the interiors remain fresh).
From the *Journal des dames* collection: Fashion engravings, watercoloured in the period, sometimes with gold highlights.
Founded in 1797 by Jean-Baptiste Sellèque, and taken over in 1801 by Pierre de La Mésangère, this famous fashion magazine was published until 1839, changing its title from *Le Costume Parisien* to *Les Modes de Paris*.
An overview of women’s fashion during the Restoration. It also features a few men’s and children’s outfits.
*Journal des modes* 1821. *Costume Parisien*.
3 volumes of plates in 8vo, two in marbled pink cardboard and one volume bound in bright red Russian leather.
456 plates (some with narrow margins).
Volume 1 – Cardboard binding (1813–1822), 255 plates, including 2 of children’s costumes.
A small marginal tear on plate 49, year 1822.
Volume 2 – Cardboard-bound (1823), 187 plates, including 6 plates of ladies with a child and one plate of a lady with a man.
Volume in morocco leather (all plates unbound)
(1820–1822) 44 plates, including 8 plates of men’s costumes and 3 of children’s
Colas, 1561. Vicaire, IV, 1106–1360.
Included:
- A Century of Women’s Fashion 1794–1894.
Paris, Charpentier and Fasquelle, 1894.
Small 12mo. Paperback, illustrated cover (spine restored with adhesive paper, with part of the original spine preserved; upper corner of cover chipped).
Album of chromolithographs.
Colas, 2742.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and Academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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