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the Bonnet Shop, which she soon bought from her employer. By the early 1940s Daché was America’s premier milliner with an “elegant New York salon in which she employed 150 milliners, shops in Chi- cago and Miami, wholesale designs sold to more than forty stores across the country, and more than half a million dollars in business each year, selling hats priced from $35 to $500” ( ANB ). Her regular subscription to La Dépêche and La note de Paris demonstrates her de- sire to stay at the cutting edge of fashion and remain connected to her early roots, allowing her to maintain her reputation as a French designer. Both La Dépêche and La note de Paris were female-directed independent fashion magazines featuring sketches of new French designs for clothes and accessories, with commentary in both French and English, and featuring designs by key couturiers such as Christian Dior and Pierre Balmain, and milliners such as Simone Cange and Madame Paulette. Daché’s “growing awareness that hats were losing their place as a vital fashion accessory, combined with her inherent ambition and energy, inspired Daché to branch out into other areas of fashion and beauty. By the mid-1950s she had completely revamped her salon and was designing, in addition to her own line of hats, dresses, accessories, jewellery, lingerie, furs, perfume, and cosmetics, plus men’s shirts and ties” ( ANB ). Extensive runs of La Dépêche such as these are almost unheard of in commerce, with no such collections of this ephemeral publica-
tion traced at auction. They are equally uncommon institutional- ly with just two collections traced; the Bibliothèque nationale de France holds a run dating from 1954 to 1966, and the Fashion Insti- tute of Technology holds a run of 229 issues also finishing in 1966. Likewise, runs of La note de Paris are scarce, with none traced at auc- tion and one set traced institutionally at the BnF. £8,750 [126533] 65 FAWCETT, Millicent Garrett. Electoral Disabilities of Women. A lecture delivered at the New Hall, Tavistock, March 11th, 1871. [Tavistock:] printed for the Bristol & West of England Society for Women’s Suffrage, by the Tavistock Printing Company, Limited, 1871 Duodecimo (161 × 102 mm), pp. 23. Disbound, stitched at the spine. Title leaf faintly creased vertically with very minor loss to inner margin at head of spine and partly split at foot of spine, the occasional small mark to contents, else in notably bright condition. first edition of this exceptionally rare pamphlet, re- cording a lecture in which Fawcett dispassionately sets out and then deconstructs 13 common arguments against women’s en- franchisement, additionally drawing upon the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, Erasmus Darwin, and Charles Kingsley, to name a few. Fawcett “became well known as a speaker and lecturer—on politi- cal and academic subjects as well as women’s issues—in the 1870s, when women rarely ventured onto public platforms” ( ODNB ). This particular lecture was given during a speaking tour organised in the West Country by leading suffragist Lilias Ashworth Hallett, which also included engagements at Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Taunton, and Plymouth. It was published again the following year by Trübner, this time for the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage. Rare: Copac lists one copy at LSE, OCLC adds none further, and we can trace none in modern auction records. See Crawford, Elizabeth, The Women’s Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928 , UCL Press, 1999, p. 214 (the 1872 Trübner edition). £3,000 [130632]
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