Hugh Cecil - A Book of Beauty (1926)
Bel exemplaire de l'ouvrage que le photographe anglais Hugh Cecil fait paraître en 1926 sous le titre A book of Beauty. Ce livre rassemble 36 portraits réalisés par le photographe dans un style proche de celui du Baron de Meyer. Le photographe fournit régulièrement à l'édition anglaise de Vogue des portraits de personnalités. La diffusion de ce livre dont les reproductions sont contrecollées sur des pages cartonnées est vraisemblablement limitée à quelques centaines d'exemplaires.
| Title: | Hugh Cecil - A Book of Beauty (1926) |
| Edition: | London. Philip Allan & Co. Ltd., 1926 |
| Description: |
74 pages, 36 tipped-in photographic illustrations. Half cream cloth binding with gilt title. Embossed paper boards. |
| Condition: | Good condition. |
| Dimensions: | 275 x 205 mm |
The list of portraits:
- The Viscountess Curzon
- Miss Nancy Kenyon
- Miss Rene Houston
- "Shelmerdene"
- "The White Nun"
- Miss Isabel Jeans
- Miss Joyce Barbour
- Lady Lettice Lygon
- Lady Bridget Parsons
- "Glamour"
- The Hon. Lois Sturt
- La Marquise de Casa Maury
- Mrs. Dudley Coats
- Miss Gladys Cooper
- Miss Pounds
- Miss Justine Johnstone
- Miss Dina Harris
- Miss Edna Best
- Miss de Lavigne
- Lady Moira Combe
- Lady Diana Cooper
- "The Bride"
- Miss Elsie Scott
- Mme Natacha Rambova
- Madame Kurilo
- The Baroness Kathleen Moncheur
- The Hon. Mrs Richard Norton
- "Alice"
- Miss Ann Bevan
- Miss Marcella Duggan
- "Betty"
- The Hon. Mrs. Christabel Russell
- "Juliette"
- "Prudence"
- Miss Betty Delaune
- Mrs Jack Nelson
The book was described in the Sketch issue from November 24th 1926: "This book is a lineal descendant of the old-fashioned "Keepsake Albums" of Victorian days and is both attractive and interesting. It consists of thirty-six beautiful reproductions of Hugh Cecil portraits of beauties of to-day, each picture being faced by a quotation from one of the poets chosen to illustrate the particular type of the subject. The ladies whose portraits appear include Lady Moira Combe, Lady Diana Cooper, Miss Elsie Scott, Miss Isabel Jeans, Miss Gladys Cooper, Miss Justine Johnstone, and Miss Edna Best, so the collection represents Society, the Stage, and the Cinema. The book is very attractively got up, and the reproductions of Mr. Hugh Cecil's camera-portraits are admirable".
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