Un Siècle de Modes Fèminines, 1794-1894: Quatre cents toilettes reproduites en couleurs d’apres des documents authentiques.

193 pastel-hued chromolithographed French fashion illustrations noting 100 years of French fashion. A wonderful guide for costume research. This copy with two ownership signatures including W. Cubitt Cooke, author of Popular British Ballads: Ancient and Modern.

Paris: G. Charpentier et E Fasquelle, 1894. 20 pages and unpaginated illustrations, two per year. Hardcover. Marbled boards with brown spine, edges bumped and worn, spine discolored. Marbled flyleaves, slightly loose hinge on front, and back. The book has some marks and shows signs of wear, but the illustrations are still in very good overall condition, some markings to some pages and ink on the title page, overall the book is in a good condition. Two ownership signatures, the latter W. Cubitt Cooke, author of Popular British Ballads: Ancient and Modern.