Lot n° 638
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UZANNE (Octave). - Lot 638
UZANNE (Octave).
Les Modes de Paris. Variations in the taste and aesthetics of women. 1797-1897.
Paris : Société française d'Éditions d'Art, L. Henry May, 1898
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- In-8, 242 x 175 : (2 ff.), IV, 238 pp, (3 ff.), 100 plates, illustrated cover. Red half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding).
First edition of this work of great interest on the history and evolution of fashion from the Directoire to the Third Republic.
"It is these successive fashions, strange, curious under so many aspects, that we wanted to fix in the course of this work by making them parade in the various circles of our dear Paris where they evolved for a hundred years [...] We would like to be able to add that this book is like the expressive and artistic synthesis of all that was written on our salons, our clothes, our ideas in the course of the 19th century. In the most concise form, it would be pleasant for us to have reached our goal: to establish the general plan of the aesthetic monument of our time. (Preface pp. III-IV).
The edition is abundantly illustrated, with more than 200 black compositions in the text and 100 colour plates by François Courboin. As Octave Uzanne points out in his preface: "Each of his hundred illustrations in color outside the text is an exact document, a general view of a disappeared or modified corner of Paris, and fashion appears only as a logical and indispensable accessory, leaving all the interest to the background of the decor where the most fashionable aspects of our old city are found. As for the two hundred and thirty drawings in the text, they have the charm, the verve, the lightness of the old vignettes of the 1840 School and will surely seduce the amateurs, both the curious moderns and those who bring in their passion for the illustrated book some retrospective tenderness."
One of the 1000 copies on special vellum (n° 45), complete with the two covers and the back cover, illustrated with superb colour compositions by Georges Auriol
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From the library of the bibliophile Alfred Piet (1829-1901).
Minor wear to hinges and headpieces.
Provenance: Alfred Piet, with ex-libris.
Attached, by the same author :
- La Femme à Paris. Nos contemporaines. Notes successives sur Les Parisiennes de ce Temps dans leurs divers Milieux, États et Conditions. Paris : Ancienne maison Quantin, 1894. - Large in-8, 281 x 189 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), VI, 328 pp, (3 ff.), 19 plates, illustrated cover. Purple half-maroquin with corners, smooth spine decorated with a mosaic of a masked woman's face, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding).
First edition printed in small numbers, illustrated in the first printing with 300 vignettes, the majority in the text, of which 114 in colour, and 20 hors-texts engraved on copperplate in colour, all after compositions by Pierre Vidal. Beautiful cover entirely illustrated in the art nouveau style by Léon Rudnicki.
Copy printed on satin vellum paper with watermarked vegetal prints.
A very nice copy, perfectly bound.
Spine very slightly faded.
- La Française du siècle. Fashions. Manners. Usages. Paris : A. Quantin, 1886. - Large in-8, 262 x 180 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), XVI, 273 pp, (3 ff. last blank), 9 plates, illustrated cover. Dark blue half-maroquin with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine decorated with gilt and mosaic floral motifs with in the centre a gilt dove in a gilt and mosaic compartment, surmounted by a gilt umbrella and a gilt fan, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding).
First edition printed on wove paper, illustrated with lettering, chapter headings, a frontispiece and 9 out-of-text compositions, etched in colours by Eugène Gaujean after watercolours by Albert LYNCH.
A fine copy, well preserved despite some scattered brown spots.
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