Paul IRIBE

First edition.
Cover illustrated by Paul Iribe, unsigned illustration of the central double page, drawings by Cocteau.
Le Mot is an illustrated weekly magazine directed by Paul Iribe assisted by Jean Cocteau. The illustrations adopt, most of the time, a satirical and strongly anti-German tone. It is in this magazine that Jean Cocteau publishes drawings under the pseudonym of Jim - the name of his dog.
Cover detached, paper yellowed as is often the case, some foxing and tears to the first cover.
The copy is complete with its subscription slip.

First edition.
Cover illustrated by Paul Iribe, grand poem on three pages by Jean Cocteau.
Le Mot is an illustrated weekly magazine directed by Paul Iribe assisted by Jean Cocteau. The illustrations adopt, most of the time, a satirical and strongly anti-German tone. It is in this magazine that Jean Cocteau publishes drawings under the pseudonym of Jim - the name of his dog.
Paper yellowed as is often the case, some foxing to the first cover.

original print in color, printed on laid paper, signed in the plate by Barbier and Iribe.
One of the first French fashion magazines, published a few days before the famous Gazette fashionable and bringing together the greatest French artists of the Art Deco movement.
The Journal ladies and modes is a trimensuelle illustrated French fashion magazine created in 1797. Its publication was stopped in 1839 before being taken in June 1912 under the leadership of Tommaso Antongini, secretary, friend and biographer of Gabriele 'Annunzio. It will disappear in August 1914 on the eve of the First World War.
The review was drawn to 1279 copies making it...