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BARBIER (George).
Falbalas and frills. Almanach des modes présentes, passées et futures. Paris, Meynial, 1922-1926. 5 issues in 2 in-8 volumes, fawn morocco, 4 double ribbed spines, gilded title and dates, fawn morocco spine flaps decorated with gilded fillets and a green morocco listel, yellow silk lining and endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, illustrated covers preserved, case [Cretté] (qq. tiny rubs).
A splendid publication emblematic of the Art Deco period, with everything that appeared in these two volumes, 5 annual issues from the first to the fifth and final year.
Each issue contains an original text by an author (Countess Mathieu de Noailles for 1922, Colette for 1923, Cécile Sorel for 1924, Marie de Régnier under her pseudonym Gérard d'Houville for 1925, Baronne de Brimont for 1926), plus fifteen compositions by Georges Barbier: cover, title page, text header (in black) and twelve stencil-colored plates.
A total of 60 compositions by George Barbier.
An exceptional copy, one of the very few, according to Carteret, to contain the engravings in two states, one of which is in black. This is Henri Béraldi's copy, with a sober, elegant original binding by Georges Cretté (1893-1969).
PROVENANCE
Henri Béraldi (bookplate)| Bernard Loliée (bookplate). (Carteret IV, 153).
Falbalas and frills. Almanach des modes présentes, passées et futures. Paris, Meynial, 1922-1926. 5 issues in 2 in-8 volumes, fawn morocco, 4 double ribbed spines, gilded title and dates, fawn morocco spine flaps decorated with gilded fillets and a green morocco listel, yellow silk lining and endpapers, gilded edges on witnesses, illustrated covers preserved, case [Cretté] (qq. tiny rubs).
A splendid publication emblematic of the Art Deco period, with everything that appeared in these two volumes, 5 annual issues from the first to the fifth and final year.
Each issue contains an original text by an author (Countess Mathieu de Noailles for 1922, Colette for 1923, Cécile Sorel for 1924, Marie de Régnier under her pseudonym Gérard d'Houville for 1925, Baronne de Brimont for 1926), plus fifteen compositions by Georges Barbier: cover, title page, text header (in black) and twelve stencil-colored plates.
A total of 60 compositions by George Barbier.
An exceptional copy, one of the very few, according to Carteret, to contain the engravings in two states, one of which is in black. This is Henri Béraldi's copy, with a sober, elegant original binding by Georges Cretté (1893-1969).
PROVENANCE
Henri Béraldi (bookplate)| Bernard Loliée (bookplate). (Carteret IV, 153).