[COLLECTION OF FASHION ENGRAVINGS]. - Lot 137

[COLLECTION OF FASHION ENGRAVINGS]. Paris, [1834-1838]. - In-8, 236 x 156 : 159 plates. Dark green half-maroquin, smooth spine, speckled edges (Masquillier). Collection of 159 colored engravings from various fashion magazines of the 1830s: - 35 color-enhanced plates from Le Bon Ton magazine, dated 1834 to 1836, bearing the addresses of London booksellers Foster and Edward Bull - 14 color plates from Le Petit Courrier des dames, dated July 1835 to October 1838 - 110 color plates from the Journal des Dames et des Modes, dated April 1835 to late 1838; some 20 engravings bear a color label modifying the address: "Esmeralda, the only fashion magazine in Belgium to give engravings executed in Paris". A fine copy in a romantic binding signed Masquillier. Although little known, Ildephonse-Louis Masquillier was one of the great Belgian bookbinders of his time. Born in Lens in 1803, he moved to Mons in 1828, where he opened a bookbinding workshop and later a printing works. Handwritten bookplate of chevalier de Vrière on the first endpaper, most probably Étienne (Bruges, 1857-Beernem, 1936), successively burgomaster of Beernem, provincial councillor and senator for West Flanders. Some rubbing and foxing, some plates browned, foxing.