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First volume only of this 2-volume set on European costumes from the 16th to 18th centuries. This volume dedicated to the 16th century. 75 fine hand-colored lithographs and 151 pages of explanatory text in French (some explanations mismatched with the plates).Exquisite costume plates of French, German, Italian, English nobles, courtiers, bourgeois, mercenaries, musicians and peasants of the 16th century, taken from contemporary paintings, manuscripts, tapestries and frescos.Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) was a French art historian and curator of the Print Room of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was professor at the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs.Condition: Binding solid, interior mostly clean except for some spotting to text and tissue-guards.

Paris: Libraire D'architecture De A Levy 1868. Large 4to. 2 vols, xix, 151, 154, pp., Illustrated with 150 lovely hand coloured costume plates depicting fashion and dress throughout history. Nice dark red half morocco with marbled boards. TEG. Some slight stripping and scuffing to the leather, internally very good, bright and clean. FRENCH TEXT. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1868.