1888 Le Costume Historique

Description

An Important Work, Colour Plates, Early Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

An important collection complete in six volumes of Auguste Racinet's monumental work on the history of clothing. An early edition in the original French. 

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, it was consolidated in 1888 in six volumes with five hundred stunning plates: three hundred in colour, gold and silver, and two hundred in camaïeu.

Looking at the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through to the nineteenth century. A unique work in its scope and detail, important in the history of French typography, especially in the use of chromolithographic technique which granted these plates some bright, impressive colouring. 
 
This remarkable work explores the history of fashion around the world and through the ages; it was considered one of the most complete and extensive studies of clothing ever to be published.

With notes, a general introduction, glossary and index. 

Collated, with twelve plates to volume I, eighty eight to volume II, ninety five to volume III, ninety seven to volume IV, ninety four to volume V, and ninety seven to volume VI (double-sheet plates are counted as one).