The Magic of Colour [Color] Harmony in Dress

Mona Moncrieffe

Sydney

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Bebarfalds

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1927

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First Edition.

25cm x 19cm. 140, [10] pages, 11 tipped-in plates, black and white illustrations in the text. Original cloth, illustrated onlay, no jacket.

1920s ladies’ fashion, though more extensively a guide to succeeding as a crafty and fashionable woman with a particular focus on the successful use of colour for different types of women. The majority of the illustrations signed Hilton, possibly Cecil Hilton Jones, also Alec J. Wood.

Minor shelf and handling wear. <1.5cm closed tear to top edge of title page. Minor foxing to edges and occasionally to interior. 3 of the plates with very small corner creasing at a gutter corner. Very Good Condition.