这本精美且插图丰富的书用书套包装，页边被涂上了金色，它展示了一系列罕见的，私人收藏的小手提包，并包括大量来自19世纪到20世纪的精美豪华配饰。随着美容产品的出现，这些小手提包经成为了炙手可热的装饰品，它们经过精心设计，且大部分是手工制作。

这些手提包需要数百个小时的耐心工艺才能完成。它们精致小巧，用铂和金等贵重金属制成，并镶嵌有亮漆，宝石，珍珠母贝，玉器或珐琅。

This elegant and richly illustrated volume, featuring a slipcase and gilded page edges, showcases a rare private collection of vanity cases and includes an exquisite array of luxury accessories from the nineteenth century to the twentieth century. These vanity cases, carefully designed and mostly handmade, became covetable accessories with the advent of beauty products. The vanity case, the ultimate jeweled fashion accessory, was designed and made mostly in Paris by skilled designers and craftsmen who understood that the fashionable modern woman needed a practical solution for carrying lipstick, powder compact, cigarettes, lighter, theater tickets, keys, and other small paraphernalia.

Tiny, made of precious metals, including platinum and gold, with inlays of lacquer, gemstones, mother-of-

pearl, jade, or enamel, these reticules took hundreds of hours of patient craftsmanship to complete.