Le Costume Historique [Vol. 1-5]

Title: Le Costume Historique [Vol. 1-5]

Author: Racinet, A. [Auguste], ed.

Publication: Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., 1888.

Description: An in-depth, illustrated history of dress around the world from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Topics covered include costumes, hairstyles, jewelry, furnishings, arms, and more. Incomplete; 5 volumes only of a 6-volume set. In French. 500 plates, including 300 in color (chromolithographs). Title pages in red and black. Bound in half red goatskin leather with marbled paper over boards, gilt spine with four raised bands, top edge gilt, and marbled endpapers. 9 x 8 inches; 5 volumes. With the bookplate of Catherine Anita-Bliss, designed by Arthur Nelson Macdonald. Moderately edgeworn and rubbed bindings with toned endpapers, else an attractive copy with clean and bright plates. Very Good.