A Pictorial History Of Costume: A Survey OF Costume Of All Periods And Peoples From Antiquity To Modern Times Including National Costume In Europe And Non-European Countries
by Bruhn, Wolfgang & Max Tilke
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About This Item
NY: Praeger, 1965. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Praeger, 1965, second printing. Folio, 10" x 13 1/2", 200pp., illustrated with 120 plates in four colors and 80 plates in gravure, representing more than 4,000 individual figures and details of costume. Brown cloth with gilt titles and cover design. Mild foxing on top corner and top edge of page block, Light foxing on pastedown/flyleaf, else near fine - clean, unmarked, bright, edges unworn in very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a short, closed tear at heel, foxing to upper corner/edge and verso. . Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good. Folio.
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- Title
- A Pictorial History Of Costume: A Survey OF Costume Of All Periods And Peoples From Antiquity To Modern Times Including National Costume In Europe And Non-European Countries
- Author
- Bruhn, Wolfgang & Max Tilke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Praeger
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1965
- Size
- Folio
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