[LE FOLLET, courrier des salons]. Paris, 1839-1840. - Large-in-8, 245 x 158 : 78 plates. Bradel-style black and mauve marbled paper, smooth spine, red title page, speckled edges. Colas, no. 1083. - Lipperheide, no. 4611. - Hiler, p. 319. - Gaudriault, La Gravure de mode féminine en France, pp. 65-67. - Vivian Holland, Hand-colored fashion plates, p. 68. Collection of 78 color plates of women's and men's costumes and accessories, taken from Le Follet, one of the most famous fashion magazines of the 19th century. The plates bear the London address Court Magazine, no. 11, Carey street Lincoln's Inn and are numbered in no particular order 786-787, 789-816, 818-825 (including duplicate 811), 844-863, 865-867 and 874-885; four plates, without the address, are unnumbered. Published from 1829 to 1882, Le Follet enjoyed a wide circulation, even abroad, with English, German and Italian editions. For Vivian Holland, it contains "the most elegant fashion plates yet produced in France, and marks the beginning of the gradual supremacy of French (fashion) engravings over English ones". A good copy.