Historic Costume in Pictures Contributor(s): Braun &. Schneider (Author) |
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ISBN: 048623150X ISBN-13: 9780486231501 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1975 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Antiques & Collectibles | Textiles & Costume - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries - Design | Clip Art |
Dewey: 391 |
LCCN: 74012532 |
Series: Dover Fashion and Costumes |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.34" W x 11.22" (1.55 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: From 1861 to 1890 the Munich publishing firm of Braun & Schneider published plates of historic and contemporary costume in their magazine M nchener Bilderbogen. These plates were eventually collected in book form and published at the turn of the century in Germany and England. This volume presents all 125 double-spread plates from the third English edition. For the first time, the plates appear in chronological order and with English captions. |