A Cyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent; and A General Chronological History of the Costumes of the principal Countries of Europe, from the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Accession of George the Third, In Two Volumes (Vol I - The Dictionary; Vol II - A General History of Costume in Europe)
London: Chatto and Windus, 1876 and 1879. Hardcover. Burgandy library buckram. In library slipcases. 527 pp + 448 pp. 19 chromolithographs, 40 monochrome plates, and plentiful textual bw illustrations. Good-. Ex-library with usual marks. Additionally, the book is marked throughout with ink stamps, including on title pages and plates. Binding is a bit loose, and both voumes have sections of loose pages, in volume 1 the frontispiece and between pp 145 and 201 and in volume 2 between pp 150 and 191. The edges of these loose pages are very damaged, including loss to the edges of the text block or image on a few pages. The portofolio case for vol 1 is torn at one hinge. Item #132952
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