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Auguste RACINET

Le costume historique.

Librairie de Firmin Didot, Paris 1876, 6 volumes in 4 (20,5x21,6). Tome I (18x21,6cm), relié.

First Edition Illustrated boards 500, 300 colors, gold and silver, and 200 in monochrome.
It will be reprinted in 1888, including sheets in folio format, certainly most spectacular and luxurious, but at all points less handy and convenient.
Half red calf slightly later. Back to nerves decorated 4 irons. Some foxing to the first pages of Volume I of the text. Copies mounted tab. Nice copy.
Monumental undertaking that lasted 12 years, the historical costume is the most comprehensive study ever published on the history of costume, fashion and style from the ancient world until the 19th century. In a tradition of the nineteenth, and why Racinet used chromolithography, the image itself becomes a field of research, the representation is the result of study and allows the study. "For readers of the twenty-first century," the Racinet "is the sum of the knowledge of his time costume. The costume historian there a state dated design an area still not cleared." Françoise Tétard-Vittu, Head of Cabinet of the Galliera museum prints. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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