- Quarto, black boards with the title stamped in blind on the front cover and in gilt on the spine. The book is housed in its pictorial dust wrapper. There is a short tear to thebottom edge of the dust jacket's front panel. 50 numbered pages with 10 full-page photographic illustrations, plus 51 plates and [4] pages of notes and credits. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition.

It was in the 1920's that Baron Adolf de Meyer influenced the development of a new genre of photography. His portraits captured the "beauty and elegance" of the period and set the stage for fashion photography.

PHOTOGRAPHY; ILLUSTRATIONS; PORTRAITS; FASHION; BEAUTY; ELEGANCE; BARON ADOLF DE MEYER; 1ST EDITION; PHOTOGRAPHS; PLATES; ROBERT BRANDAY; PHILIPPE JULLIAN; FIRST EDITION; DEMEYER.