Author: MALLEMONT, A.
Title: Album de Coiffures Travesties. Modèles de la Coiffure françaises illustrée, 1889-1898. Première Série. Deuxième ed. (2nd. edn.).
Description: Paris, Brunet, 1907. Folio. orig.g ilt lettered cloth orig. lithographed pictorial title-page. Album with many col. ills. on 12 lithographed plates, depicting female extravagant coiffures with headdress. incl. some examples of men's beards & hairstyles, extensive text (in french) to the ills. printed on rectos of tissue-guards, ills. also showing upper-parts of dresses, all being designs for Fancy-balls in Paris in the period. A very interesting album, plates still very clear. Rare. (orig. spine gone, but skilfully replaced).

Keywords: fashion paris fancy balls hairstyles headdress lithography design france