BEATON, Cecil[67] pp.Duckworth193011 1/8" x 9"Exceedingly rare with the pictorial jacket Scroll Down for (29) Additional Scans:Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece from the author's drawing of Queen Alexandra, 27 collotype reproductions of his photographs, and 100 line drawings in the text. Cecil Beaton's scarce first book. The Book of Beauty is Beaton's unashamed paean to the beauty of the women who inhabit his world. The book is inspired by books of beauty published in the Victorian period and by his childhood fascination with the theatricality and glamour of the opposite sex. Photographs of women are accompanied by flowery descriptions. Sitters include Baba and Nancy Beaton, Edith Sitwell, Tallulah Bankhead, Tilly Losch, Nancy Cunard and Lady Diana Cooper. The whole captures the wit, intelligence and spirit of the modern women. I have tried...to make my book an analysis of modern beauty, a collection of the loveliest ladies I have ever seen, and, in time, it may become a sentimental document for our granchildren, to marvel at all the types of beauty to-day; the latest varieties of Venus as well as the counterparts of former belles. The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs, highlights actresses such as Tallulah Bankhead and Anna May Wong but also modernist literary figures like Edith Sitwell and Nancy Cunard. Contents:Lillie LangtryLily ElsieGaby DeslysGina PalermeMary Curzon, Lady HoweThe Morgan Sisters (Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness and Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt)Gladys CooperRosamond PinchotLady Diana AbdyThe Beaton Sisters (Nancy Beaton and Baba Beaton)The Jungman Sisters (Zita Jungman and Baby Jungman)Edith SitwellVirginia WoolfHazel LaveryTallulah BankheadThe French Sisters (Essex French and Valerie French)Lillian GishMarion DaviesNorma ShearerAlice WhiteGreta GarboIrene CastleGertrude LawrenceLady Eleanor Smith and Lady Pamela SmithHon. Daisy FellowesTilly LoschVicomtess Alice de JanzéMarjorie OelrichsMrs Gordon Beckles WilsonMona WilliamsThe Ruthven Twins (Alison Ruthven and Peggy Ruthven)Paula Gellibrand, Marquise de Casa MauryNada Ruffer and Clarita de UriburuFreda Dudley WardAnita LoosAdele AstaireLady Nancy CunardLady Sylvia AshleyLady Diana Cooper
