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Gros & Delettrez
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SEM. The Real & the Fake Chic.
See original version (French)
215
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SEM. The Real & the Fake Chic.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
SEM.
The Real & the Fake Chic.
Paris, under the Artistic Direction of SEM by ‘Succès’, 1914.
Folio (45.5 x 31.5 cm), (3) folios advertisements (the pasted-in photographs have been removed from three pages), (4) loose advertising leaflets with titles in embossed gold lettering, (22) pp. of text with numerous vignettes, 16 plates on 8 ff., (4) ff., including 3 advertisements. The publisher’s cream-coloured folder is illustrated with a large pair of gilded, embossed scissors (a few foxing spots and slightly creased edges on the cover).
Includes advertising inserts at the beginning and end of the volume.
A fine copy. A standard reference work. Complete.
Copy enhanced with 4 loose advertising leaflets for Renault, Parfums de Coty, l’Orfèvrerie de Boin-Taburet and Les Ameublements de Jansen, with titles in embossed gold lettering, two of which are stencil-coloured.
An illustrated and satirical album published in Paris in 1914 by the publisher Succès, under the artistic direction and featuring drawings by the famous caricaturist Sem (Georges Goursat)
WOMEN’S FASHION. ART DECO.
“A very fine album of humorous texts and drawings on women’s fashion by the columnist, illustrator and caricaturist Sem.
Each page of text is adorned with one or more drawings in black and white or in colour, and the 17 central pages are illustrated with beautiful
full-page colour compositions. Complete with the first three and last three leaves, on heavy paper, bearing
illustrated advertisements that have been pasted in?”
See original version (French)
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