The Delineator- April, 1913 Issue. William Cotton Cover Painting. Alonzo Kimball, Robert Hichens, et al

New York: The Butterick Publishing Company, 1913. First Edition . Single Issue Magazine. Very Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. Various. New York: The Butterick Publishing Company, 1913. The April, 1913 issue of The Delineator, the bellwether fashion publication of its era. Cover painting of a very young Dutch maid by William Cotton. Elephant Folio at 16" tall, illustrated staple-bound wraps, 92 pp. Very Good; peripheral wear points, notable short crowsfoot creases at spine, and one spine slit at bottom. Contents Near Fine throughout. See scans. Large, "bedsheet" size periodical, which by this date had begun including some full-page color fashion art by a large array of noted genre artists. Period Fashion, sewing patterns, engaging fiction, black and white art as well as the color, cooking and other home topics and interest pertinent to the magazine's role. Vintage ads as well. See sll scans, and, in particular, zoom on contents page, which gives a sound sense of the topics and the artist and author variety and quality. A genre tour de force, as always in this living timeline in the history of American fashion. An especially issue from a period in which any surviving issue is now scarce. Ships in stout protection, of course. Leph2