By Cecil Beaton
London   B. T. Batsford LTD
11.5" by 9" [6], vii-viii, 135, [1pp]
The first edition of this beautiful Cecil Beaton scrapbook, illustrated with his original photographs and illustrations throughout. In a unique floral binding.
By Cecil Beaton

1937 Cecil Beaton's Scrapbook

London   B. T. Batsford LTD
11.5" by 9" [6], vii-viii, 135, [1pp]
The first edition of this beautiful Cecil Beaton scrapbook, illustrated with his original photographs and illustrations throughout. In a unique floral binding.
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: 1.5kgs / : 771P51

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Description

Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition of this work.

In a decorative binding with floral paper to the boards, a rare variant.

A wonderful scrapbook of Cecil Beaton's striking photography and illustrations. 

Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title page, seven full-page pages, many photographs in-text and full-paged, and in-text illustrations throughout, with highlights of colour.

Collated, complete.

Beaton is a renowned fashion, portrait, and war photographer, well known and loved for his stage and costume design for films and theatre. He won Academy Awards for his costume design for the films 'Gigi' and 'My Fair Lady'.

Without the original dustwrapper.

Condition

In the original publisher's half cloth binding with floral paper to the boards. Externally, smart. Light discolouration to the spine, with a few minor marks to the boards and spine. Small patch of paper is lifting to the tail of the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

Very Good Indeed

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