Wednesday, December 8, 2010

A Pretty Little Volume


These are some Georges Barbier illustrations from a pretty little volume entitled The Romance of Perfume, from 1928, containing some interesting text as well.








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5 comments:

Annie said...

These are beautiful! Thank you.

December 8, 2010 at 10:50 AM
Larry MacDougall said...

Thanks Thom - beautiful and elegant.

December 8, 2010 at 5:49 PM
JRB said...

"Published by Richard Hudnut": R.H. was a large cosmetics manufacturer; does this little tidbit include advertising for their products? Or is it a serious attempt at a history of perfume? At 46 pages it can't be very thorough... Very pretty, though.

December 9, 2010 at 11:54 AM
Thomas Haller Buchanan said...

It was a poetically serious attempt at history, actually interesting and inspirational in a sensuous way. It's like a lovely dissertation right on the beam for its title, the ROMANCE of perfume. There was an insert in the back, but I can't recall if that was advertising or something else. I traded off the book some time ago, and I scanned all the text pages, but not the insert.

Really, a lovely book.

December 9, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Anonymous said...

I have this book !

December 30, 2012 at 1:18 PM

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