Mary; Roland HAUPT and Maurice AMBLER ( photographers ). The Sheepskin Book.

by BARNARD

£400 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

Sheepskin Chic BARNARD, Mary; Roland HAUPT and Maurice AMBLER ( photographers ). The Sheepskin Book. London : [ Wm. Hodge Chilver for ] Brocklebank Productions . [ c. 1949–51 .] 8vo. Publisher’s green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, in the unclipped illustrated dust-jacket by Pearl Falconer (priced 7s. 6d. net to front flap); boards slightly sunned at head, spine ends lightly bumped, two small nicks to front cover with old adhesive repairs to interior, short closed tear to rear cover; slight spotting to half-title and to interior of jacket and to a few pp.; else a near-fine copy; pencilled annotations to front flap; offered with several contemporary patterns and advertisements by the Sheepskin Shop ( see below ). First and only edition, very rare, of this charming book of sheepskin patterns produced for the Sheepskin Shop on Oxford Street, with fashion photography by Roland Haupt, darkroom technician and photographic assistant to Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton during the Second World War. Haupt operated from London’s Vogue darkroom, processing and printing highly important negatives sent by Miller and Beaton from the front, including photographs from Dachau. Described as the ‘first of its kind’, Barnard’s work is ‘entirely devoted to Sheepskin’ and extensively illustrated with over seventy photographs, patterns, and designs to guide readers in the making of ‘thirty-one beautiful articles for yourself, your family, and your home’, including gauntlets, mittens, and gloves; umbrella

• Binding: Hardcover

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