The complete costume history / Auguste Racinet ; [introduction by Françoise Tétart-Vittu]

Racinet, Auguste (1825-1893)

2006, First Edition. Köln ; London : Taschen. Fine copy in the original cloth boards and equally fine dust wrapper, in a slightly worn slip-case. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #293528
ISBN: 3822850950

Physical description; 544 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 40 cm. Notes; Includes bibliography. Text in English, German and French. Translated from the French. Contents; Part I - The Ancient World (Egypt, Assyria, Israel, Persia and Phrygia, Greece, Etruscan, Greco-Roman, Rome, Barbarian Europe, Celts and Gauls); Part II - The 19th Century - Beyond the Borders of Europe (Oceania, Africa, Eskimos, North American Indians, Mexican Indians, South American Indians, China, Japan, India, Ceylon, Middle East, Orient, Turkey); Part III - Europe 400-1800 (Byzantium, France-Byzantine, Poland, Italy, Spain, Germany, France, England, Holland); Part IV - Traditional Costume Till the Late 19th Century (Scandinavia, Holland, Scotland, England, Germany, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France); Part V - Patterns and Templates. Subjects; Costume History Pictorial works. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

Price: €125.00