HASLEWOOD BOOKS. LOWINSKY, Thomas. MORTIMER, Raymond. ~ Modern Nymphs, being a series of fourteen fashion plates with an introductory essay on clothes.
London
Printed by the Westminster Press for Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 192 Church Street Kensington W8
1930
No. 32 of 150 copies. Printed in Caslon Old Face on Batchelors Kelmscott paper. 14 plates plus title-page and tail piece by Thomas Lowinsky, all coloured by hand. Pp. 73. Tall thin 4to., original brown linen backed patterned paper covered boards. A little chipping to the paper at the corners, otherwise a very good, largely unopened copy.
Lowinsky produces stunning Art Deco fashion plates based on classical nymphs for Mortimer’s amusing but serious essay on fashion, issued during one of its greatest eras.
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