Le costume historique
by RACINET, Auguste
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Some minor white paint residue along board edges (not visible when shelved), light toning to foot of vol.6 spine, otherwise very
- Seller
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
'THE MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL SURVEY ON COSTUME' (Colas). Racinet's is the most famous of the 19th-century books on dress, and the first fashion book to use color lithography. It is a wide-ranging survey of costume through time, an encyclopaedic work in the tradition of the costume books that began to appear from the 16th-century in the wake of the age of exploration. Publication was made possible by significant developments in color printing technology, and a resurgence of interest in 'the other' as a new period of European colonialism gathered pace from the mid-19th century. The emphasis here is on continuity in traditional dress, rather than innovation in fashion, and linking costume to local history, custom and social organization. Racinet was determined to produce a visually appealing book that deployed chromolithography to full effect; to this end, he sometimes embellished on reality by adding color to some of his sources. Colas 2471-2; Lipperheide Ad52; Vicaire VI, 945-6; Vinet 2141.
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- Bookseller
- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 400654
- Title
- Le costume historique
- Author
- RACINET, Auguste
- Book Condition
- Used - Some minor white paint residue along board edges (not visible when shelved), light toning to foot of vol.6 spine, otherwise very
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Firmin-Didot
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1888
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
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