LA MODE FEMININE 1490-1795

A small portfolio of women's fashion designs broken into four folders of loose plates, 20 plates per folder for a total of 80 plates. This copy missing plate 20 from the third series (1720-1775). Beautifully hand colored pochoir plates illustrating the fashions of the time, each card measuring 7 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches, the year shown at the bottom of each card. Each wrapper also illustrated with a color illustration. Charming original folding case with patterned papers and silk ties. Case is worn but intact with short silk ties remaining. Former owners name in ink on several plates in the first series, some of the signatures across the bottom of the images.