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1888réf. 001135Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie 1888. 1st Edition. Half Morocco. Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15. This is the much less common folio version of this work with each of 6 volumes measuring 16.5 by 12.5 inches or 42 by 32 cm. With 500 plates 300 using color chromolithography. This copy is about as as good as it gets. Modern half morocco over green boards is pristine. Five thick raised bands on each spine with gilt lettered labels. Traditional Victorian endpapers. All bindings are tight. Interiors are about as clean as can be notwithstanding the most occasional and lightest of speck. This is one of the most elaborate and detailed costume books ever produced if not the single most ambitious such work. It is still an invaluable reference but it functions fabulously well simply as visual entertainment and the plates contained herein have found their ways to many a print shop where they have been framed and later hung on walls as decoration. As not uncommon among costume books Racinet also serves up a healthy helping of accessories and interiors throughout the ages. Like Racinet's other masterpiece "L'Ornement Polychrome" the chromolithography of this work is exceptionally brilliant. Firmin-Didot et Cie unknown
1888réf. B4829Firmin-Didot c. 1888. Edition: First Edition. Binding: Half contemporary morocco with matching pebbled cloth with gilt borderings on boards. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with dense gilt ornamental devices. Gilt title on 2. Text in French. Notes: In this fine work which took 12 years to complete various range of costumes and hair-styles jewelry period furnishings weapons furniture are covered and has been a very rich source for artists and designers of various backgrounds. The usage of chromolithography has provided brilliant colors for the plates. There are 500 plates including 300 in color gold and silver and 200 in monochrome. Each part is preceded by a descriptive note. Volume I is an overview of the collection; Volume II focuses on classical antiquity outside of Europe; Volume III introduces the European world; Volume IV centers on France and Europe until the seventeenth century; Volume V discusses France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Volume VI moves through France from the eighteenth century to the modern times and then provides an overview of Modern Europe going through its distinct nationalities. Size: Folio 405x280mm. Volume: In Six Volumes. Category: Book Plate Books Colour; Book Costumes; Book Europe France; Book Art Architecture & Design; Firmin-Didot hardcover