Collectif - Echo du Petit Courrier des Dames - 1862

Stunning illustrated edition of this women’s magazine, blending society columns, fashion advice, literary tales, and practical sections -

The 1862 issues highlight costume engravings, descriptions of outfits, and fashion trends of the Second Empire -

They also offer poems, sentimental short stories, and articles on education and domestic morality -

The magazine valorizes bourgeois and aristocratic elegance, while disseminating models of behavior and consumption. It contributes to the construction of a modern feminine identity, by combining entertainment, social prescriptions, and high-society culture -

The whole collection illustrates the normative and aesthetic function of the women’s press, which shapes the practices and imaginaries of mid‑19th‑century readers.

Collective - Echo of the Petit Courrier des Dames - 1862 -
380 Pages.

Good condition of the binding, the work in its green half-leather binding, wear from use, headcaps, rubbed joints and corners, speckled edges, the spine smooth and adorned with gold fillets, title and date gilded.

Good interior condition, some foxing and damp stains, charming drop caps, text in two columns, the work enriched with numerous colored illustrations tipped in out of text, including a frontispiece, marbled endpapers in good condition -

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