Author: EIGENBERGER, L. (PUBLISHER/PREFACE),
Title: Der Goldene Schnitt. Das Werk zur Selbstausbildung zum Zuschneiden von jeder Art Kleidung und Wäsche für Damen, Herren und Kinder in allen Grössen.
Description: Hamburg, Der Goldene Schnitt Verlag/Luise Eigenberger, [COP.], 1940. sm. 8°. Orig. red cloth, bold gilded covertitle. [1]p. of introd. text, featuring some technical directions to general tailoring. 128pp. with numerous mainly monochrome illustrations, featuring female, male and children's dress to the latest fashion, with extensive captions and reference numbers to 32 tailor's patterns printed on both sides, loosely inserted in endpocket, together with, Ergänzungsheft 5 [Supplement no. 5], 12°. original thin paper wrappers with covertitle and an illustration. Stapled. orig. wraps., stapled. (14.5x10.5cm.) [63]pp. of numerous monochrome fashion illustrations with tailor's on facing pp., pub. note to today's fashion on verso of front wrapper, also in endpocket. German language textbook to home tailoring of male, female and children's clothing after the latest fashions. Good to very good copy. A rare edition.

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