La Belle Assemblée links

La Belle Assemblée was a superior magazine for ladies which was published from 1806 to 1832, when it was renamed The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée. It is a particularly good resource for Regency and Georgian historians because of the beautiful engravings and fashion prints which it included each month.

A number of issues are available online, but they are surprisingly difficult to track down. Many of them have all their illustrations intact, but, sadly, not all.

Here is a list of links to the copies that I have found, together with links to the fashion prints, where available, on my Facebook page. Please let me know if you have details of links to any copies that I have not included.

Parisian full evening dress La Belle Assemblée (Feb 1806)

Feb-Jul 1806 Vol I Part I

1806 fashion prints

Parisian walking dress and ball dress La Belle Assemblée (Dec 1806)

Aug-Dec 1806 Vol I Part II

No engravings to accompany the biographical sketches in this volume.

1806 fashion prints

Parisian riding habit La Belle Assemblée (Mar 1807)

Jan-Jun 1807 Vol II  

1807 fashion prints

Evening dress and morning dress La Belle Assemblée (Oct 1807)

Jul-Dec 1807 Vol III

Alternative link

1807 fashion prints

Walking dresses La Belle Assemblée (Oct 1808)

Jul-Dec 1808 Vol V

1808 fashion prints

Jan-Jun 1809 Vol VI

No fashion plates or engravings to accompany the biographical sketches in this volume. 

Evening full dress La Belle Assemblée (May 1810)

Jan-Jun 1810 Vol I

1810 fashion prints

Ball dress La Belle Assemblée (Aug 1810)

Jul-Dec 1810 Vol II

1810 fashion prints

Walking dress La Belle Assemblée (Jun 1811)

Jan-Jun 1811 Vol III

1811 fashion prints

Madame Catalani La Belle Assemblée (Jul 1811)

Jul-Dec 1811 Vol IV

No fashion prints in this volume.

Walking dress La Belle Assemblée (Jan 1812)

Jan-Jun 1812 Vol V

1812 fashion prints

Jul-Dec 1814 Vol X

No fashion plates or engravings to accompany the biographical sketches in this volume.

Opera dress La Belle Assemblée (Mar 1816)

Jan-Dec 1816 Vol XIII & XIV

1816 fashion prints

Parisian walking dress La Belle Assemblée (Aug 1818)

Jan-Dec 1818 Vol XVII & XVIII

Jul-Dec 1818 Alternative link

Jan-Dec 1818 Alternative link

1818 fashion prints

Walking dress La Belle Assemblée (Apr 1819)

Jan-Dec 1819 Vol XIX & XX

1819 fashion prints

Morning visiting dress La Belle Assemblée (Jun 1820)

Jan-Dec 1820 Vol XXI & XXII

1820 fashion prints

Spring promenade costume La Belle Assemblée (Apr 1823)

Jan-Dec 1823 Vol XXVII & XXVIII

1823 fashion prints

Evening dress La Belle Assemblée (Sept 1825)

Jul-Dec 1825 Vol II

1825 fashion prints

Opera dress La Belle Assemblée (Mar 1826)

Jan-Jun 1826 Vol III

Jul-Dec 1826 Vol IV

1826 fashion prints

Opera dress La Belle Assemblée (Mar 1827)

Jan-Jun 1827 Vol V

Jul-Dec 1827 Vol VI

1827 fashion prints

Opera dress and ball dress La Belle Assemblée (Apr 1828)

Jan-Jun 1828 Vol VII

Jul-Dec 1828 Vol VIII

1828 fashion prints

Morning visiting dress La Belle Assemblée (Dec 1829)

Jan-Jun 1829 Vol IX 

Jul-Dec 1829 Vol X

1829 fashion prints

Ball dress and evening dress La Belle Assemblée (Jun 1830)

Jan-Jun 1830 Vol XI

Jul-Dec 1830 Vol XII 

1830 fashion prints 

Evening dress and opera dress La Belle Assemblée (Mar 1831)

Jan-Jun 1831 Vol XIII 

No April prints in this volume.

Jul-Dec 1831 Vol XIV

No October prints in this volume.

1831 fashion prints

Opera dress and carriage dress La Belle Assemblée (Mar 1832)

Jan-Jun 1832 Vol XV

1832 fashion prints

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Rachel Knowles writes faith-based Regency romance and historical non-fiction. She has been sharing her research on this blog since 2011. Rachel lives in the beautiful Georgian seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset, on the south coast of England, with her husband, Andrew, who co-writes this blog.

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Last updated 9 July 2024