Fashion and Costumery

Manchester: James Gee [circa 1870s]. (Mass market paperback) 60pp. Good to very good. Color illustrated card covers, 4 color plates. (Costume, Hats, Social History).

Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1957. (4to) 256 pp plus 121 plates. Near fine in very good dust jacket. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Patterned endpapers, black & white and color illustrations, maps, patterns, 78 color plates, errata slip, 2 double-sided folding patterns laid in. The dust jacket has minor edgewear, a dampstain on the top edge, is lightly faded on the spine and the front inner flap is crumpled near the center. Text in Estonian Language. Locale: Estonia. (Costume, Costume--Estonia, Folk Costume--Estonia).

Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn at corners and head and foot of . spine, gilding faded, some foxing to interior, illustrations of young girl . and married woman have several small areas of loss in center, lower . corners of several illustrations chipped.. 1891. Hardcover. A leporello tourist souvenir featuring five color lithograph illustrations of Norwegian Folk Costumes after photographs by F. Beyer of Christiana (as Oslo, Norway was known from 1624-1924) , taken in 1891. The illustrations are mounted on cardboard and fold out accordion-style from green cloth boards with elaborate black and gilt botanical design on front. The title of this leporello is in Danish, but the captions for each costumed figure are in English and German. The five costumes shown are for a married man, married woman, young girl, bride and bride and bridegroom together. Measures 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Illustrations fold out to a length of 50 cm. No copies located in WorldCat or the trade at present. ; 8vo… Read More

New York: By Prof. A. D'Alessio. Very Good. 1923. First Edition. Soft Covers. Rare magazine. Agostino D'Alessio Director of the Academy of Art Design was for many years a notable figure in the tailoring & designing trade. He established the New York Academy 1n 1903. Known for expertise with men's and boy's clothing. Contains drawings of women's & men's garments & fashionable patterns. Published January 1923. English & Italian text. Small stain on top edge. Rusty staples. Mended edge tear by spine head. Technical; Drawings & Patterns; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 26 pages .

Cincinnati, OH: The American Products Company, May, 1925. Perfect bound (355 x 280 mm). Original brown wrappers printed in blue and cream, brown cloth backstrip. 78 pages, of which 16 are in full colour and the rest being uncoloured lithographs on single-colour backgrounds. With the original order form loosely inserted. Light rubbing at the extremities, small chips at the ends of the spine. A fresh copy in excellent condition. A beautiful, 78 page chromolithographic catalogue for the American Products Company's Zanol line of cosmetics, food products, and home goods, including 16 pages in full colour. A superb example of Art Deco marketing design. The American Products Company was founded in 1907 by three brothers, Albert, Edgar and Clarence Mihalovitch (Albert later changed his surname to Mills), of Cincinnati, who hoped to capture the growing Midwestern consumer market (see "Cosmetics by the American products Company", Collecting Vintage Compacts blog, January 2012). This catalogue promotes… Read More

Peterson's Magazine for 1864, January to December, inclusive. A complete year of Peterson's heavily illustrated fashion and literary magazine. Remarkably silent on the Civil War considering the dates! Ladies fashion, Paris fashion, poems, short and serialized stories, etc. bound with and 1856 United States Magazine featuring the U.S. Capitol Building. Ex-Libris

A collection of finely engraved plates illustrating the Regency vogue for neo-Classical dress29 delicate line engravings showing Empire-style costumes and furnishings, as well as scenes from literature (Alexander Pope's Belinda) and antiquity (Pericles, Pan and Syrinx, Echo and Narcissus)Henry Moses (1782-1870) was a sought-after engraver who worked for James Barrie, William Opie and Benjamin West. He enjoyed a great reputation for his outline plates, which are distinguished for the purity and correctness of the drawing. Among his other works are A Collection of Vases 1814, Picturesque Views of Ramsgate 1817, Vases from the Collection of Sir Henry Englefield 1819, Sketches of Shipping 1824, Marine Sketch Book 1826, etc.This collection was also issued under the imprint of at least two other London publishers in 1823 (McLean and Miller).Leather spine solid, paper boards soiled, bookplate of Walter and Edith Wiggin on front endpaper, hinges repaired, all 29 plates present, but as often, with varying… Read More

Editions Flammarion, Paris, France, 2014. First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Very Good Condition/Very Good. VG/VG- 1st ed very substantial 2014 Flammarion hardback, unclipped DJ. Light wear along edges of DJ, mild crease to base of DJ spine, corners pushed, VG bright and unmarked. Size: 265\nx 350\nx 45.72mm. 400 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fashion, Fabrics & Style; Exhibition Catalogues & Specific Collections; ISBN: 2080201697. ISBN/EAN: 9782080201690. Dewey Code: 708.4. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 084758.. 9782080201690

A rare suite of all 30 plates in both hand-coloured and uncoloured states.Total of 91 etchings: 1 set of 30 hand-coloured plates and 2 sets of 30 uncoloured plates, plus portrait of Sardou.The etchings by A. Guillaumot Fils (Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr.) were made from theatrical costume designs by Eugene Lacoste and Draner for productions of the comic opera Les Merveilleuses (The Lady Dandies) (1873) by Sardou. The costumes were based on contemporary prints from the Revolutionary era.
Suites of the second edition with 30 etched plates, following the first with only 20 plates in 1874. The Merveilleuses is set in Revolutionary France during the period of the Directoire, 1789-1804, where Royalist Parisian society is led by the Incroyables and Muscadins, ridiculous fops and dandies, and Merveilleuses, outrageous women wearing classical Roman- and Greek-inspired robes in see-through fabrics. Title page in black and red, 2pp preface, table of plates, 2pp letter by Victorien Sardou, 12pp description of… Read More

8° (mm 175x110); cc. (4), 608, (24). Dopo le prime quattro carte, splendida tavola calcografica ripiegata - firmata "J. Ziarnko" e datata Paris 1612 - fuori testo (mm 265x300, margini inclusi), raffigurante il torneo di cavalieri che si volse presso la Place Royale. Legatura coeva in pergamena, titolo manoscritto al taglio-piede del volume. Alcuni fascicoli naturalmente bruniti, tuttavia buon esemplare.

The third 'annata' of what is considered the first French magazine hosts the description and the (first?) iconographic witness of the tournament entitled 'Le Romant des Chevaliers de la Gloire', organized by the Queen Regent, Maria de' Medici, to celebrate the wedding of Louis XIII with Anne of Austria. At the pages 331-58 of the volume there is the report of the celebrations and, above all, of the carrousel, with a detailed legenda of the large plate. A description of the festival was published in the same year - Le Romant des chevaliers de la gloire containing plusieurs hautes et fameuses… Read More

NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 197pp., lavishly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Inscribed by Herrera on half title: "To Annette, Carolina Herrera." "Through the celebrated photography of Annie Leibovitz, Francesco Scavullo, Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Mario Testino, as well as the words of friends, colleagues, and admirers sucg as Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager and Bianca Jagger, among others, Carolina Herrera is a portrait of one of today s most timeless designers. With an introduction by Hamish Bowles, this book tells the story of one of fashion s most remarkable women." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Signed By Artist. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Complete collection of 50 costume plates illustrating emperors, priests, soldiers, gladiators and officials of ancient Rome. Two handcoloured frontispieces and 50 handcoloured copperplates drawn and engraved by L. Labrousse, artist of Bordeaux, under the direction of Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur.The 50 vivid portraits illustrate all ranks of Roman society, from the Emperor or dictator to patrician, citizen and plebeian; civic officers such as senator, political candidate, praetor, orator, aedile, quaestor, tribune, censor, and magistrate's lictor; religious figures such as Rex sacrificulus (king of sacrifices), Ponitifex maximus (chief high priest), high priest, priestess, Luperci, fetialis and flamen priests, victimarius (executioner), haruspex and augur; military figures such as Praetorian guard, aquilifer (standard bearer), legionary, funditor (slinger), sagittarius (archer), hastatus (lancer) and buccinator (hornplayer); and circus athletes such as charioteer, gladiator, retiarius, secutor,… Read More

Complete suite of 380 fashion plates covering six centuries of French costume by the artist Hippolyte Lecomte. With lithographed title page in Volume 1 (Pl. 1), and 379 finely handcoloured plates of French male and female fashion from 1230 to 1820 in three volumes.Volume 1 with plates 1 to 127, 1230 to 1572.Volume 2 with plates 128 to 254, 1572 to 1723.Volume 3 with plates 255 to 380, 1723 to 1820.First Italian edition with the plates newly lithographed by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello. The handcolouring is regarded as superior to the original French edition Costumes civils et militaires de la monarchie française, Delpech, Paris 1820. This extensive and important collection testifies to the keen interest in the history of the kingdom of France during the period of the Bourbon Restoration. The plates document the history of French clothes from about 1230 to 1820. Civilian clothes of all social classes are shown together with military uniforms, starting with medieval crusaders in armour and… Read More

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression, 1921 on the title page. Dedicated to fellow author Andrew Lang. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Mallard Green boards with bright gilt titling on front board and spine. 310 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Summary: "A dying colleague gives Mr. Horace Holly at Cambridge University a locked box, the contents of which lead Mr. Holly to travel to Eastern Africa where he hopes to solve an ancient mystery, only to be captured by the savage Amhagger people who are ruled by a fearsome white queen, who is worshipped as "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed".