💎Johanna von Sydow Brevier der Eleganz

Johanna von Sydow offers advice and reflections on clothing, personal care, appearance and social behaviour, providing a fascinating insight into the ideals of beauty and refinement of the period.

The publication combines practical guidance on fashion and the toilette with observations on life in the salon and society. It includes 40 woodcut illustrations, partly full-page, after drawings by E. Döpler, depicting clothing, accessories and scenes from fashionable life in the nineteenth century.

A valuable historical source for collectors of fashion history, costume studies, women’s cultural history and illustrated books of the nineteenth century.

Text in German.

Otto Spamer, 1879. First edition. 254 pages. With 40 woodcut illustrations after E. Döpler. Original decorative binding. Cover with wear to the corners; first and last pages with some stains; interior in very good condition.