The World in Vogue, 1893 to 1963
Daves, Jessica (ed.) The World in Vogue. First Edition. 1963. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows minor wear; this is an exceptionally nice copy of a title in which the jacket is typically in tatters. Co-edited by Alexander Liberman.
This book was published on the magazine’s seventieth anniversary and is a compendium of its best writing, photographs, and illustration with contributions by the many of the best writers, photographers, and artists of the 20th Century. Fashion is but one of the subjects covered. As Vogue editor-in-chief Jessica Daves writes in her introduction to this book, Vogue speaks to a reading audience “moved by hunger, love, and fear; to seek amusement; to feel envy, desire, curiosity, and [possess] an avid interest in the new,” in art, fashion, philosophy, music, society, etc.
“Vogue has sometimes been called a civilizing force. If that is true, perhaps it is because a civilization, to endure, needs voices to sing its praise.”
--Jessica Daves