Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First, Illustrated By: Photographic and Illustrations

preface by author, introduction by Barbara Baines, bibliography and index. Illustrated endpapers showing illustration for 1920s garments. Colour illustrated frontispiece, being a reproduction of George Barbier's 'Des Roses Fans La Nuit', from a design by Worth. The text is illustrated with colour reproductions of fashion plates and garments and black-and-white photography. Blue coloured boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white colour title to the front panel and backstrip. A look at fashion, mostly through illustrations, from 1901 through to 1939. This period of time was a design revolution, where women were freed from constricting corsets and stays, and where couturiers boldly went where no dressmaker had gone before with free-flowing garments, colour and design. Rubbing to the book corners and lower book edges with a little softening of the backstrip edges. Some marks to the top half of the front panel. Rubbing to the dustwrapper edges and panels. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [6], 7-128 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Fashion, Fabrics & Style; Illustration; Art & Design. ISBN: 0151360855. ISBN/EAN: 9780151360857. Inventory No: 0116186.