Title: LA | BELLE ASSEMBLÉE | OR, | BELL’S | COURT AND FASHIONABLE | MAGAZINE, | ADDRESSED PARTICULARLY TO | THE LADIES. | VOL. XI.—NEW SERIES. | FROM JANUARY 1, TO JUNE 30, 1815. | LONDON: | Printed for J. BELL, GALLERY OF FINE ARTS, | Clare-Court, Drury-Lane. | 1815. ||
Pagination: [2] – 11th volume wood-engraved pictorial title page, [1, 2] – January faux-title and table of content, [3] 4-284 [2] – index to 11th vol.
Notes: February f.t. not paginated, but within the collation; the last page of the index at the very end paginated [iii]/iv, so pages i/ii missing (the gathering Nn lacking one sheet)
Collation: 4to; π1 A-Mm4 Nn3, 28 plates extraneous to collation (lacking 2 plates).
Binding: Half brown morocco over marbled boards, flat spine, compartments gilt-ruled with double-fillet and gilt-lettered.
Contents:
Jan: pp. 1-48, 5 plates.
Feb: pp. 51-96, 5 plates.
Mar: pp. 97-144, 5 plates.
Apr: pp. 145-192, 5 plates.
May: pp. 193-240, 5 plates.
Jun: pp. 241-284, 3 plates (lacking 2 colour prints).
Fashion plates, two per issue, are hand-coloured copperplate engravings, unsigned.
Stipple engraved portraits, one per issue as frontispiece:
(1) Actress Catherine Stephens, Countess of Essex (British, 1794 – 1882) by James Hopwood the Elder [James Hopwood Senior] (British, c. 1740s/50s – 1819) after Sir George Hayter (British, 1792 – 1871);
(2) Madame de Talleyrand, Princesse De Bénévent (Danish-French, 1761– 1834), unsigned, but can be attributed to François Gérard (French, 1770 – 1837);
(3) Actress Miss Sarah Booth (1793 – 30 December 1867), unsigned;
(4) Group portrait of the French Royal family (Louis XVI, Louis XVII, Marie Antoinette, Madam Elizabeth, Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke d’Enghien, and Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe), unsigned,
(5) Actress, Miss Sarah Blanche Matthews (b.1794) by Thomas Burke (Irish, 1749 – 1815) after George Hayter.
The sixth print, in the March issue, is a lithographic portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte (French, 1769 – 1821), unsigned.
