La Guirlande Des Mois
Meynial, Paris, 1919.
12cm x 8cm. 12mo. Silk covers with beautiful colour illustrations in pochoir by Barbier, all edges gilt. In the original pictorial dustwrapper and pictorial card slipcase. Patterned endpapers, pictorial title page decorative borders and chapter headings. Six pochoir colour plates in the Art Deco style. A fine copy of the book, in a near fine dustwrapper, which has a small tear repaired to the edge of the spine and fine original slipcase. Protected by custom made outer slipcase.
Guirlandes des Mois is a series of almanacs produced by Jules Maynial and illustrated by George Barbier, the delightful little books (five in total) were published annually between 1917 - 1921. Barbier was a keen book collector and his own collection included a series of seventeenth - early nineteenth century almanacs and it was this collection which inspired the design of the Guirlandes. The books contain an anthology of writings, bank pages for notes and a calendar. The illustrations are beautifully delicate, with covers, dustwrappers and box all containing different drawings. Beginning on the war years many of the illustrations reflect the times, with images of soldiers on leave wooing elegant young women.
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