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two men in formal clothing standing next to each other on a balconyan old book sitting on top of a white table next to a white wallan old fashion book with two women in dresses and a man in a suitan old fashion illustration of a woman in a blue dress and a woman in a white dressan old book with a drawing of two women in formal dress
Maître Paul PASTAUD

693 - [Fashion engravings]. A collection of fashion engravings. Pa…
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Estimate €150 - €200
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[Fashion engravings]. A collection of fashion engravings. Paris, [1834–1838]. In-8 (24.5 x 17 cm), comprising 159 plates, in dark green long-grain half-maroquin, smooth spine, speckled edges (Masquillier). A collection of 159 coloured engravings taken from various fashion magazines of the 1830s: - 35 plates taken from the magazine *Le Bon Ton*, dated 1834 to 1836, bearing the addresses of the London booksellers Foster and Edward Bull - 14 plates taken from *Le Petit Courrier des dames*, dated from July 1835 to October 1838 - 110 plates taken from *Le Journal des Dames et des Modes*, dated from April 1835 to the end of 1838; around twenty engravings bear a coloured label amending the address: ‘Esmeralda, the only fashion magazine in Belgium to feature engravings produced in Paris.’ Handwritten bookplate by the Chevalier de Vrière on the first endpaper, most likely Étienne (1857–1936), who served successively as mayor of Beernem, provincial councillor and then senator for West Flanders. A few scuffs and retouching, a few plates discoloured, some foxing; otherwise a fine copy in a signed romantic binding.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 2 of 4 – Nos. 550 to 1084
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Auction time 08/20/2026 at 11:00 AM
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