1860's HAND-COLORED FASHION. Custom Binding of 110 Hand-Colored French Fashion Designs.

A very attractive period assemblage of some 110 hand-colored fashion engravings in an attractive 19th century quarter leather landscape folio measuring 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Previous seller label of Hayden & Fandetta of New York, a premier dealer of historical fashion and design books.

All with very clear impress and brightly hand-colored, many are from the designs of French couture designer, Jean-Baptiste David [i.e. Jules David 1808-1892], whose French fashion designs of were sent to England and America and hand-colored to be distributed with various women's journals to display the newest French fashions. There was also a larger assemblage of his design work published as The Latest Fashions Expressly Designed and Prepared for the Milliner, Dressmaker and Draper and Illustrated Household Journal, from Le Moniteur de la Mode and another entitled Le Moniteur des Dames et des Demoiselles [1858]. Many of the present appear be to be from the last of these.  

Designers, Engravers, and Lithographers include: Jean-Baptist David, J. Bonnard, Jean de Beaumais, Geevais, Fuller & Company of London, A. Boudin, Laure Noel [dated 1864], A Sortien, etc. 

Quarter leather custom binding measures 7 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Plates trimmed variously to fit folio, occasionally infringing on the extremities of an image. Loss to spine leather, not impacting structural integrity. A lovely volume and reasonably priced. Individual plates often offered at $50 - $100 each.