Histoire de la Coiffure Feminine
Paris: Librairie Renouard ... Henri Laurens, 1892. Lithographic Plates. First French Edition. Three-quarter leather. Thick 4to. Pp. xiii, 830. Title page printed in red and black, with a vignette. Color frontis. with tissue guard. With approximately 500 illustrations. Marbled endpapers. Bound in three-quarter bottle green morocco over marbled boards, gilt lettering and raised bands on spine. Original wrappers bound in. Spine faded to green-brown, with ends chipped; light foxing to preliminaries; small armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. Item #5847
First French edition, published a year after the first printing, a year earlier, in Brussels. A magnificent volume in solid, presentable condition. COLAS, 3020; HILER p. 881.
Price: $350.00