La Guirlande Des Mois
Meynial, 1920.
First edition. 12cm x 8cm. Silk covers with colour illustrations in pochoir by Barbier, all edges gilt. In the pictorial dustwrapper and slipcase. Patterned endpapers, pictorial title page, decorative borders and chapter headings. Six pochoir colour plates in the typical Art Deco style one associates with Barbier's work. A fine copy of the book, in fine dustwrapper and slipcase.
The fourth almanac produced by George Barbier is a sumptuous little book. The hand-colouring of the plates is bright and crisp.
Guirlandes des Mois is a series of almanacs produced by Jules Meynial 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, blank pages for notes and a calendar. The illustrations are beautifully delicate, with covers, dustwrappers and box all containing different drawings. Beginning in the war years many of the illustrations reflect the times, with images of soldiers on leave wooing elegant young women.
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