PARISIAN FASHION - Jacques DE NOUVION (director). Journal des Dames et des Modes.Paris: Bureaux du Journal des Dames, 1912-1914. 79 numbers in 4 volumes (220 x 140 mm). 186 pochoir plates. Includes supplements and advertising. Contemporary dark blue three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, spines stamped and lettered in gilt, original dark blue printed wrappers bound in. Condition:one spine faded to brown, light wear to extremities and boards. Provenance: Chateau de Rosny (bookplate). number 240 of 1,279 copies. An important pre-war Parisian fashion journal aimed at the poetry and fashion connoisseur, the periodical is best known its colored fashion plates by George Barbier, Leon Bakst and others. The volumes included fashionable poetry and commentary from writers such as Anatole France and Jean Cocteau. Began in 1912 by modelling itself after the 19th century publication of the same name, the journal halted production due to the outbreak war, never to recover. rare, only 1279 copies of each were printed with the pochoirs loosely inserted.