The Magic of Colour Harmony in Dress
Sydney, Bebarfald's Ltd., 1927.
Quarto, 150 pages printed in red and black, with numerous illustrations plus 11 tipped-in plates (10 in colour, 7 of which are full-page, most of them credited to 'Hilton').
Gilt-decorated cloth with a colour plate mounted on the front cover; cloth mottled and a little rubbed and marked; minor signs of use and age; a very good copy.
'Bebarfald's ... was a retailer of home furnishings and a manufacturer of furniture, trading for many years from their landmark location opposite the Sydney Town Hall on the corner of George and Park streets.... Bebarfald's also offered customers free dressmaking courses and established an advisory bureau headed by Mona Moncrieffe, one of Sydney's leading authorities on home dressmaking. In addition, the company established a home-planning bureau and in 1927 published a substantial volume, "Safe home planning"' (Dictionary of Sydney, online). The Bebarfald name was in continuous use in Sydney from around 1872 until 1973.
Item #126477
Price (AUD):
$750.00