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1888001135Paris: 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. <br/><br/> Firmin-Didot et Cie. unknown books
1888216913Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie. Imprimeur de L'Institut 56 Rue Jacob 56 1888. 500 Planches 300 en Couleurs Chromolithographs Or et Argent 200 en Camaieu. 6 vols. 4to. Bound in quarter black pebbled contemporary morocco and pebbled cloth over boards. Fine. 500 Planches 300 en Couleurs Chromolithographs Or et Argent 200 en Camaieu. 6 vols. 4to. Colas 2471; Lipperheide 93; Hiler 732 Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie., Imprimeur de L'Institut, 56, Rue Jacob, 56 unknown books
188857695Paris: Firmin-Didot 1888. hardcover. very good. With 500 illustrations including 300 chromolithograph plates and 200 "en camaieu". 6 volumes. Short oblong 4to handsomely bound in 3/4 red morocco ornate gilt-stamped spines t.e.g. shelfworn corners worn; hinges broken in vol. V upper hinge broken vol. III else internally excellent set. Paris: Firmin-Didot 1888<br/><br/> A splendid survey of the costume of all nations and periods with some treatment of hair-styles jewelry period furnishings etc. Contains bibliography and extensive glossary. Arntzen/Rainwater P99; Chamberlin 1681.<br/><br/> Firmin-Didot unknown books
188854622Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie 1888. 500 Planches 300 en Couleurs Or et Argent 200 en Cameau. 6 vols. 4to. Bound in contemporray half brown morocco gilt spines t.e.g. Very attractive fine. 500 Planches 300 en Couleurs Or et Argent 200 en Cameau. 6 vols. 4to. Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie unknown books
1877249052London: Henry Sotheran 1877. hardcover. near fine. 100 spectacular chromolithographic plates in vivid color all clean and fresh. 58 pages of text with many black & white illustrations rubricated title. Small thick folio rebound in maroon cloth black spine label. London: Henry Sotheran 1877. A near fine copy.<br/><br/> Henry Sotheran unknown books
43378Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Nd. THIRD EDITION. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket issued. Cent Planches en Couleurs. Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Nd. 2 vols. THIRD EDITION. Copious full color plates. Unpaginated. Text in French. Hardcover. Folio. Dark green cloth boards with ties. Bound portfolio style with loose plates; some text pages unopened; light wear and soil to boards; 100 of 100 plates in volume 1 119 of 120 plates in volume 2. Still an amazing work produced with the utmost care. Very good/No jacket issued. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply Insurance required to ship this item. Librairie de Firmin-Didot hardcover books
187038429Paris: Firmin Didot Freres c.1870. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Paris: Firmin Didot Freres c.1870. 100 chromolithograph some highlighted with gold and silver. 60 100 plts each with accompanying text pp. Text in French. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Brown Full elaborately blind-stamped and gilt-lettered morocco. All edges gilt. Ex-lib as indicated by bookplate perforated stamp at top fore-corner of title-page and small ink stamps on the backs of a number of plates. Overall ex-lib status very unobtrusive and a nice copy. Very good/No dust jacket. Insurance required to ship this item. Firmin Didot Freres hardcover books
1888400654Paris: Firmin-Didot 1888. First edition. Some minor white paint residue along board edges not visible when shelved light toning to foot of vol.6 spine otherwise very clean and fresh. 4 of 6 volumes lacking volumes 1 and 6 folio 16 x 11 1/4 inches. Title printed in red and black. Plates including fine chromolithograps. Each volume present is complete as issued. Modern quarter plium morocco over cloth the spines in six compartments with five raised bands gilt-lettered in two a richly gilt arabesque in the remaining. A fine though partial set the plates in very fine condition with colors fresh and bright heightened with gum arabic. <br/><br/>'THE MOST IMPORTANT GENERAL SURVEY ON COSTUME' Colas. Racinet's is the most famous of the 19th-century books on dress and the first fashion book to use color lithography. It is a wide-ranging survey of costume through time an encyclopaedic work in the tradition of the costume books that began to appear from the 16th-century in the wake of the age of exploration. Publication was made possible by significant developments in color printing technology and a resurgence of interest in 'the other' as a new period of European colonialism gathered pace from the mid-19th century. The emphasis here is on continuity in traditional dress rather than innovation in fashion and linking costume to local history custom and social organization. Racinet was determined to produce a visually appealing book that deployed chromolithography to full effect; to this end he sometimes embellished on reality by adding color to some of his sources. Colas 2471-2; Lipperheide Ad52; Vicaire VI 945-6; Vinet 2141. <br/><br/> Firmin-Didot hardcover books
268140Paris: Firmin-Didot. hardcover. very good. 2nd series. 8 of 10 volume set. Missing volumes 5 and 9. The superb series of plates were printed in chromolithography by Firmin Didot each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text. There is some scattered foxing in the text but the plates are fine and clean. Slim folio publisher's red pebbled cloth with gold lettering. Paris: Firmim Didot 1885 - 1887. Very good.<br/><br/> Firmin-Didot unknown books
268327Paris: Firmin-Didot. Third. hardcover. The superb series of plates were printed by chromolithography by Firmin Didot each plate accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text. Fore edges of the first few pages are rough the plates are fine and clean. Thick folio publisher's ornately gilt red pebbled cloth with gold lettering a.e.g. extremities of spine rubbed. Paris: Firmim Didot ca. 1887. Very good . Third Edition.<br/><br/> Firmin-Didot unknown books
188540734Stuttgart: Verlag von Paul Neff 1885. 120 Chromolithographic Plates. 1 vols. Folio. Half brown morocco worn and stained. Interior fine except first ten pages with horizontal tear affecting one plate only rest of plates fine. 120 Chromolithographic Plates. 1 vols. Folio. Verlag von Paul Neff unknown books
1880118408Stuttgart: Verlag von Paul neff 1880. Dritte Auflage. Hardbound. VG. Plates are clean and crisp slight soiling here and there at the extremities. The box itself is held together with old duct tape. Original cardboard case surrounding the loose sheets with paper label. iv 60 6 pages 100 chromolithographic plates with accompanying leaves of text. An astounding set of 100 vividly colored plates and their accompanying text in German. In this book we see examples and illustrations of ornamental designs on porcelain tapestries enamels silks jewellery illuminated manuscripts stained glass jewelry furniture etc. from Greek Byzantine Indian Renaissance Celtic Arab Persian and many other styles of design. Bookpress Williamsburg VA states: Third German edition. First published in ten parts from 1869-1873 this third German edition uses the same plates as the first printed by Didot of Paris. Racinet's work along with Owen Jones's "The Grammar of Ornament" are the two great ornament books of the age. Stunning plates. Verlag von Paul neff hardcover books
1890002734New York: The Gast Art Press The Gast Lith. and Eng. Co. 1890. First Edition. Paper pastedown on boards. Near Fine. 4to. 12 by 9 inches. Unpaginated. Each chromolithographic plate is accompanied by two pages of text describing the epoch and the woman representing it. The women include a druidess a Roman maid a Saxon a Norman a "White Rose of York" one from the early Tudor period and one from the Elizabethan Age a Puritan maiden ones from the reigns of King Charles II Queen Anne and George II and finally a woman from Regency England. Clean and tight within with the original decorative endpapers. Light soiling and edgewear to the binding. Tissue guards intact. <br /><br /> The Gast Art Press (The Gast Lith. and Eng. Co.) hardcover books
2009Embry 165706Taschen 2009. Bump to upper front corner near fine in fine dust jacket with tiny tears to lower front corners in very good slipcase with two dent to upper short seam and a bump with a short split to lower front corner and short seam in mylar cover. Hundreds of full page color plates. Folio. Taschen, 2009. unknown books
2012403373Cologne Germany: Taschen 2012. 2 volumes 4to. 335pp. Color illustrations. Original pictorial cloth boards; slipcase. Fine. FIRST EDITION. <br/><br/> Taschen hardcover books
1988201842New York: Portland House 1988. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 284pp folio cloth dust wrapper. New York; Portland House 1988. Near fine.<br/><br/> Portland House unknown books
1988178447London: Studio Editions / Random House UK 1988. Hardcover. VG/G. covers have scuffs & scratches; edge-wear to cover edges; corners rubbed. pgs edge toned. dustjacket has edge-wear & curling to top edge chip to corner; scuffs & scratches; rubbing to corners & spine. black boards w/ gilt spine printing. 284 pgs w/ 100 color plates. glossy purple & pictorial dustjacket. Pages and plates clean. Studio Editions / Random House UK hardcover books
1988121597New York New York: Portland House 1988. Hardcover. VG. Maroon cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; Color illus. dj.; 284 pp.; numerous bw figures; 100 color plates. Part of The Library of Design; A new edition of the 1873 book Polychromatic Ornament; Contains wonderful examples of ornamentation used for decorative arts from all over the world; Includes ornamentation from Ancient Greek Greco-Roman Chinese Japanese Celtic Persian Indian and other cultures; 100 full-page plates with extensive annotations; Oversized. Portland House hardcover books
