1922 Le Costume en Orient

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The first French language edition of German costume designer Max Tilke's study of the 'costume in the east'.

This work was considered a pioneering ethnographic review upon publication, displaying and describing the traditional dress of a variety of African and Asian nations, including that of Japan, China, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and Tibet.

Illustrated with twenty-eight colour plates. Collated, complete.

Tilke's colour plates present the costumes laid flat, in the form of a series of patterns that could be reproduced in the west. To the start of the work are thirty-two leaves of text, containing explanations of what is shown in the plates.

With the bookseller's label of A. Wagner to the tail of the title page, partially obscuring the publisher's information.

Undated; dated 1922 via Jisc.