Costumes anciens et modernes: habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mundo: 1 (French Edition) by Vecellio, Cesare

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paris: M. Amb. Firmin Didot, 1859. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair; pp 234; grayish green spine with gilt text to dark green bands; no jacket; rebound; cloth has slightly soiled exterior; rubbing wear to edges and joints; ex-library label to spine; strong boards; text block shows some age toning to exterior edges; ex-library with markings inside; ex-libris plates; black circular stain to frontispiece; offset stain to verso to ffep; ex-library pouch to rear pastedown; slight foxing throughout; cracked front hinge; illustrated; text in Italian and French. Ancient and Modern Costumes [Ancient and Modern Habits]. 1335778. FP New Rockville Stock.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paris: Firmin Didot, 1859. Hardcover. Octavo, Good condition hardcover; 1/4 bound in black leather and marbled boards, paneled spine with gilt lettering and tooling; top edge of text block gilt, marbled endpapers; some rubbing and wear to boards; Age-toning to fly leaves and faintly to margins of text; Text is in French and Italian; Shelved in Room G. 1245073. Special Collections.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Very good copy of the fourth and best edition of this famous Renaissance collection of world costumes.With 513 costume plates printed on fine vellum paper, with each plate facing a page of descriptive text in Italian and French.This new edition has all the original costume plates corrected by Gerard Seguin and engraved on wood by Etienne Huyot. The decorative frames to both costume and text pages were engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann.A panorama of world costume from European nobility and peasants, Venetian senators, prostitutes, Turkish pirates and dervishes, ancient Roman soldiers, fanciful Japanese and Nestorian costumes, Native Americans from Virginia and Peru taken from travel books, etc. Cesare Vecellio (c.1521-1601) was an Italian artist, cousin and assistant to Titian, active in Venice and Augsburg. In 1590, he published his collection of costumes of all nations with woodcuts copied from Christoph Krieger. Despite many fanciful and imaginary costumes, it became an iconic source in the… Read More