Fashion in Paris. The Various Phases of Feminine Taste and Aesthetics from 1797 to 1897.; With One Hundred Hand-Coloured Plates. Two Hundred and Fifty text Illustrations

London: William Heinemann, 1898. First Edition. Half Morocco over Marbled Boards. Very Good. Courboin, Francois. 4to. 182 pp., plus 100 color plates, depicting women's fashion throughout the nineteenth century. A delightful, eye-filling traversal of Paris fashions from yesteryear. Some occasional foxing. Most plates and text leaves are clean. Binding is tight. Blue morocco spine decorated with Fleur-de-lys. Spine somewhat dry. Rubbing of leather pronounced along gutter. Some additional edge and corner wear.