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 Title: Townsend's Monthly Selection of Parisian Costumes; The London and Paris Ladies Magazine of Fashion
Publisher: 1860
Seller ID: 643
4to. Bound volume of various periodicals related to women’s fashion in the mid-nineteenth century. Bound in are 6 issues of Townsend’s Monthly Selection of Parisian Costumes, No. 85 to 90 (Jan-June) 1860. Each issue with 4 full page exquisitely hand-coloured plates depicting women and children in elegant gowns and outfits of the period. Each issue also has a full page of engravings of headdresses and hats of the period and 8 pages of detailed descriptions of the plates as well as "Observations on London and Parisian Fashions" for that month, and a chapter of ongoing fiction called "Forsaken Sunshine, A Story of Woman’s Life and Love". In addition there is a poem or current event column as well as current theatre and opera listings. This really is the Vogue of the day, fascinating and entertaining. One yellow publisher’s advertisement slip for the magazine tipped in. Also bound in are 6 issues of "The London and Paris Ladies’ Magazine of Fashion, Polite Literature, Etc…" , July-December, 1860. Each issue contains 4 full page plates of women’s fashion 3 of which are hand-coloured (except August which has only 2 hand-coloured plates and one uncoloured). Also 1 plate per issue of hats and headdresses. The format is quite similar to the Townsend’s with extremely detailed reporting from Paris on current fashion trends, explanation of the illustrations and some fiction as well. Each also has 2 pages of wonderful adverts for various ointments, products, jewellery and other publications. These are really fascinating and offer a look back in time at advertising techniques with strange and interesting products such as ‘Pears’s Dr. Locock’s Lotion for the Hair’. All bound in contemporary cloth with ‘Fashions’ in gilt on spine. Front board very soiled but binding tight and solid.. Interior very good with some heavier soiling inside front cover but marginal soiling throughout the rest. One black and white plate with 4 inch piece missing, not affecting illustration, but rest of volume with no tears and very clean. A few hand-coloured plates with a few light creases but overall in great shape with exceptional vivid colouring that practically jumps off the page. A full year of wonderful scarce fashion periodicals with 41 hand-coloured plates that would make a fine addition to any collection on the subject. E-mail for more pictures.
Fashion,hand-colored,dresses,gowns
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