[FASHION]. Journal des dames et des modes. Paris : Aux bureaux du Journal des dames, 1912-1913 - 57 issues in 3 volumes in-8, 227 x 140 : VIII, 168 pp. 43 plates ; (2 ff.), pp. (169)-312, 51 plates ; (2 ff.), 144 pp. 36 plates, printed covers. In sheets, publisher's folder and slipcase. Set of the first 57 issues (out of 79) published between June 1, 1912 and December 20, 1913, forming the first 3 volumes of this famous fashion journal founded by Tommaso Antongini and Jacques de Nouvion on the model of the periodical of the same name published between 1797 and 1839. These plates are numbered from 1 to 129 to which is added an unnumbered plate by Charles Martin entitled Le Choix difficile (issue 22). Copy in a perfect state of conservation, complete with the general titles, all the delivery covers and the general covers. The issue including the title, the preface and the general cover of volume 1, is in duplicate, one of them enriched with a false title and a general title dated 1913. The issues are complete with advertising supplements . The first issue includes the " Facsimile of the first page of the n° of the Journal des Dames et des modes of May 31, 1812 ". There are two notices to subscribers in issue 22 and one in issues 35 and 36. At the beginning of volume 3 there is a notice of the publication of the work Les Masques et les personnages de la comédie italienne and a fully engraved invitation card for the audition of the Cantola. One of the 1250 copies on Hollande paper, this one subscribed by a certain Mr Dufour. One finds in the first volume a letter signed by Jacques Nouvion of January 16, 1913 on the letterhead of the newspaper, one page in-8, addressed to Mr. Dufour about the publisher's casing. This letter is accompanied by its envelope as well as a receipt of 10 francs for the casings of volumes II and III, dated December 19, 1913.