STÉPHANE. L'Art de la coiffure féminine, son histoire à travers les siècles. Paris: La Coiffure de Paris, 1932. - In-4, 274 x 219. Bradel half red banded cloth, old binding endpapers preserved (Boichot). First edition of this documented study by the hairdresser to Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. It is illustrated with 260 black reproductions, from ancient Egypt to the beginning of the Third Republic. One of 120 first copies on cream matte paper, this one no. 36. It comes from the collection of star hairdresser Alexandre de Paris, whose real name was Louis Alexandre Raimon (1922-2008), with a fine autograph letter repeated on the old endpapers: "de Cléopâtre à Cléopâtre par Alexandre, [19]62" and several seals. The mailing refers to his friend Elizabeth Taylor, whom he styled for Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film Cleopatra. A fine copy. Provenance: Alexandre de Paris, with dispatch from the author and repeated stamps.