Le costume historique : cinq cents planches, trois cents en couleurs, or et argent, deux cents en camaïeu : types principaux du vêtement et de la parure, rapprochés de ceux de l'intérieur de l'habitation das tous les temps et chez tous le peuples, avec de nombreux détails sur le mobilier, les armes, les objets usuels, les moyens de transport, etc.

Date:

1888.

Author:

Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825-1893.

Collecting Area:

Rare Books

Call Number:

GT 513 R2 1888 LOCAL

Publisher:

Librairie de Firmin-Didot et cie, imprimeurs de l'institut, 56, rue Jacob, 56

Physical Description:

6 volumes, 500 leaves of plates : illustrations (color and monochrome) ; 21 cm

Notes:

Vol. 1 is mainly explanatory text with an "Introduction générale" by the author dated "Juin 1887." Vols. 2-6, each with half-title only, are mainly plates accompanied by descriptive text and were published in twenty "livraisons" 1877-1886. LOCAL

Subjects:

Clothing and dress Pictorial works, Clothing and dress History, Clothing and dress Terminology, Costume Pictorial works, Costume History, Dress accessories Pictorial works, Interior decoration Pictorial works, Costume, Costume Histoire, Clothing and dress, Costume, Dress accessories, Interior decoration, Costume Histoire. ram, Vêtements Histoire. ram, Clothing, and Clothing history

Genres/Forms:

History, Pictorial works, Terminology, and Chromolithographs France 1888. gmgpc