The Romance of Perfume, édition originale
LE GALLIENNE (Richard) illustrated by George BARBIER
Paris, New York - Richard Hudnut - 1928
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Cardboard.
- Collation : 46 pp.
In a blue morocco leather case and shirt signed DEVAUCHELLE.
Publisher's cardboard decorated by George Barbier. Illustrated with 8 colour compositions by G. BARBIER on different periods: China, Greece, Rome, Egypt, India, etc. using the Smithsonian process, which is close to stencil rendering.
FIRST EDITION. It was financed by Richard Alexander Hudnut (1855-1928), creator of a perfume and cosmetics house based between New York and Paris. Hudnut perfumes owned two prestigious boutiques, one on Fifth Avenue, L'auteur at 20 rue de la Paix, opened in 1927.
A complete copy of the At 20 de la Paix booklet on Le Début perfumery (16 pp., stapled and bound in blond silk). It is placed in a small case mounted on the lower back cover).
Copy enriched with an ORIGINAL AQUARELLE SIGNED BY GEORGE BARBIER using the illustration India on p. 24. (dimensions: 254 × 169 mm.)
Superb copy protected by a beautiful shirt case from Devauchelle.
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