GRAPH BOOKS: PRINTED MATTER FROM RADICAL ART AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
FEMINIST HISTORIANS OF MATERIAL CULTURE.
“Femme éternellement belle”...
Mary Blanc, 1920s
(Pochoir) (Perfume) (Orientalism) Mary Blanc.“Femme éternellement belle”... [Paris: Les Papeterie Glandières, ca. 192-.] 16 x 11 cm., [8] pp.; descriptive text and price list of beauty products influenced by “Hindu” recipes and secrets passed from Marco Polo to the Italian Renaissance and to France; wrappers with color pochoir print on front cover, slight discoloration on blank edge of cover otherwise very good.
Attractive pochoir design reminiscent of Léon Bakst’s orientalist costume designs for the Ballet Russes. The small printing house, Les Papeterie Glandières, had a specialty in pochoir printing.
Not located in OCLC.
$95