[MODE] La Mode, Revue du monde élégant. Quatrième année.

Price : 3.500,00 

The Parisian spirit and fashionable life in 76 engravings in color.
Beautiful copy preserved in its contemporary homogeneous bindings.

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Paris, Janvier-Juillet 1832.

4 volumes large 8vo [217 x 130 mm] gathering 76 plates in total: I/ 320 pp., 21 plates in color: 20 plates numbered from 201 to 220 and 1 not announced, wrappers bound in; II/ 344 pages, 20 plates numbered from 182 to 200 + plate 260, last leaves on yellow paper, upper wrapper bound in; III/ 320 pp., 17 plates numbered 221 to 237, wrappers bound in; IV/ 332 pp., quire 11 is missing hence there is a gap within the numbering from p. 253 to 276, 17 plates numbered 242 to 256, without plates 238 and 254, tear touching the text p. 23, wrappers bound in.

A few waterstains. Brown sheepskin, blind-stamped border on the covers, flat spines with green morocco lettering pieces, yellow edges speckled with blue. Contemporary binding.

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Fourth year of this important magazine founded by Emile de Girardin, who is proud to represent the Parisian spirit and fashionable life.

We find there Doctor Véron, whose presence soon attracts Alphonse Karr, Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Sue, Georges Sand, as well as Balzac.

In 1830, passing under the control of the legitimists, with Viscount Walsh, La Mode will stand against the July Monarchy.

The superb illustration is composed of 76 plates in color.

Beautiful copy preserved in its contemporary homogeneous bindings.

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Paris, Janvier-Juillet 1832.