Almanach du Masque d'Or 1921

Premiere Année.

Four pouchoir plates representing the seasons,  a 12 page calendar with decorative surrounds, 17 full-page illustrations representing "La Journée D'Un Vrai Parisien", vignettes throughout the text all in colour.

12mo. [137 x 98 x 14 mm]. [9]ff, 17-223, [1] pp. Bound in the original white glazed paper covered boards, the front cover with a green figure of a ballerina with a lighter green stripe in each corner, and the rear with her male counterpart. Smooth spine blocked with a mask and the date in blind, decorative white endleaves, top edges gilt, the others uncut. Containined within a new white goatskin drop-over box, the front cover with a green goatskin onlay reproducing the ballerina with green stripes in the corners, smooth spine lettered on a green goatskin label, the interior lined with green suede, green cloth sides. Stock no. ebc2816.
Paris: chez Devambez, [1920].

A fine copy of this delightful Almanach. Only 1000 copies were printed and this is numbered 68. There is no copy recorded on the Bibliotheque Nationale online catalogue, though it does have the Almanach for the second and final year, 1922. The illustrations are by Edouard Halouze and include the four plates of the seasons and a series of advertisements for the smartest of shops, including Cartier, and other places of entertainment or indulgence.