[DARROUX (Alfred)]. - Lot 151

[DARROUX (Alfred)]. Official French fashion. Paris: Darroux, 1909-1939. - 38 fascicules in-12, 180 x 120 mm approx.), 8 ff. each. Stapled, illustrated covers in different colors, housed in three half-tan limpets, smooth spines decorated with gilding, title-pieces in different-colored chagrin. Edited by Alfred Darroux, who had succeeded Ladevèze, then by Jean Darroux from 1937, this publication offered 15 or 16 pages of men's fashion models per season. This set includes brochures for Spring-Summer 1909, Autumn-Winter 1909-1910, 1910-1911 and 1912-1913, Spring-Summer 1913, Autumn-Winter 1913-1914, 1914-1915 and 1919-1920, Spring-Summer 1920, Winter 1920-1921, Summer 1923, Autumn-Winter 1924-1925, 1925-1926, Spring-Summer 1926 to Autumn-Winter 1927-1928, Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter from 1929 to 1933, then Spring-Summer and Autumn-Winter from 1934 to Spring-Summer 1936, and Summer and Winter from 1937 to 1939. Enclosed is a brochure advertising Everwell clothing for the Winter 1936-1937 season, in the same presentation, entitled La Mode officielle. Oily stain at foot of cover of Autumn-Winter 1909-1910 brochure, worn cover and marginal fold at bottom corner of Autumn-Winter 1912-1913 issue, cutout at top corner of bottom cover of Autumn-Winter 1919-1920 issue, 4 centerfolds of Summer 1923 issue missing, slight trace of fold at Summer 1937 issue.