Historic costume in pictures.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Braun and Schneider

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--Pictorial works.

Costume.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

255 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1975.

Summary:

A comprehensive source of historic costume in pictures, this remarkable book from the late 1800s features over 1450 costumed figures shown from antiquity to the end of the 19th century, covering a wide variety of peoples, social classes, and professional types: Egyptian and Assyrian kings, Frankish nobles, Crusaders, German knights and pages, Italian scholars, English Puritans and Cavaliers, Japanese, individual Asians and more.

Notes:

At head of title: Braun and Schneider.

"Contains all the plates from the third edition of Costumes of all nations, as published by H. Grevel and Co., London, in 1907....The plates were originally published serially by Braun & Schneider between 1861 and 1890."

ISBN:

048623150X :

OCLC:

1735242