Poiret, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, HC, Near Fine in Very Good DJ

Koda, Harold, et al. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007. English, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 14 3/4" x 12", 224 pp. ISBN: 9780300120295 Glossy brown cloth over board, blind stamped to spine, and front and back panels, pressure indentation to front cover otherwise clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout.  Gold dust jacket, embossed gold lettering to front panel, embossed gold rose illustration to back panel, white lettering to spine. Some rubbing and creasing to tips, pressure indentation to front panel, otherwise clean, intact, and protected by a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 224 pp. Includes 180 illustrations, 158 in full-color and full-page including the pochoir prints by Paul Iribe and Georges Lepape, detail phots of Poiret's iconic haute couture and wearable fashions and accessories, alongside an Introduction by Nancy J. Troy, essays, and other contributions by Mary E. Davis, Caroline Evans, Jared Goss, Heather Hess, Caroline Rennolds Milbank, and Kenneth E. Silver. A sumptuously produced fashion monograph on the groundbreaking French designer and master couturier, Paul Poiret (1879-1944).