[LA MESANGERE]. - Lot 190

[LA MESANGERE]. [JOURNAL DES DAMES ET DES MODES]. Set of 3 volumes of hand-colored engravings. 3 in-8 volumes: two in contemporary pink glue-bound cardboard covers and one volume bound in contemporary red morocco-stamped sheepskin (wear on the cardboard covers, one spine missing, a few stains, scuffs, and rubbing on the morocco, a few scattered foxing spots, but interiors remain fresh). From the Journal des dames collection: Fashion engravings, watercolored at the time, sometimes with gold highlights. Founded in 1797 by Jean-Baptiste Sellèque and taken over in 1801 by Pierre de La Mésangère, this famous fashion magazine was published until 1839, changing its title from *Le Costume Parisien* to *Les Modes de Paris*. A panorama of women’s fashion during the Restoration. It also includes some men’s and children’s outfits. *Journal des modes* 1821. *Costume Parisien*. 3 volumes of plates in-8, two in marbled pink cardboard and one volume bound in bright red Russian leather. 456 plates (some with narrow margins). Volume 1—Paperboard binding (1813–1822), 255 plates, including 2 of children’s costumes. Small marginal tear on plate 49, year 1822. Volume 2—Paperboard binding (1823), 187 plates, including 6 plates of ladies with a child and one plate of a lady with a man. Volume in morocco leather (all plates loose) (1820–1822) 44 plates, including 8 plates of men’s costumes and 3 of children’s costumes Colas, 1561. Vicaire, IV, 1106–1360. Included: - A Century of Women’s Fashion, 1794–1894. Paris, Charpentier and Fasquelle, 1894. Small 12mo. Paperback, illustrated cover (spine restored with adhesive tape; part of the original spine preserved; upper corner of cover chipped). Album of chromolithographs. Colas, 2742. Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné. Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller and lover of bookbindings, a flutist, and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, frequented both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were staged primarily in the Paris region.