Institut de Beauty

by Sem -, Georges Goursat

$500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Stitched wrappers. A fine copy of this work containing two stories: one of creative hair-dressing, and the second of a nose-job. Georges Goursat moved to Paris in about 1900 and adopted the professional name 'SEM' in honour of the 19th-century illustrator Chaim Amédée de Noé , and during his long and very successful working life recorded Paris and the French upper classes during four decades - a speciality was to produce images which are

• Binding: Wrappers

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