are clothes modern? An essay on contemporary apparel by Bernard Rudofsky - 1947

Cincinnati, OH: The American Products Company, May, 1925. Perfect bound (355 x 280 mm). Original brown wrappers printed in blue and cream, brown cloth backstrip. 78 pages, of which 16 are in full colour and the rest being uncoloured lithographs on single-colour backgrounds. With the original order form loosely inserted. Light rubbing at the extremities, small chips at the ends of the spine. A fresh copy in excellent condition. A beautiful, 78 page chromolithographic catalogue for the American Products Company's Zanol line of cosmetics, food products, and home goods, including 16 pages in full colour. A superb example of Art Deco marketing design. The American Products Company was founded in 1907 by three brothers, Albert, Edgar and Clarence Mihalovitch (Albert later changed his surname to Mills), of Cincinnati, who hoped to capture the growing Midwestern consumer market (see "Cosmetics by the American products Company", Collecting Vintage Compacts blog, January 2012). This catalogue promotes… Read More

First volume only of this 2-volume set on European costumes from the 16th to 18th centuries. This volume dedicated to the 16th century. 75 fine hand-colored lithographs and 151 pages of explanatory text in French (some explanations mismatched with the plates).Exquisite costume plates of French, German, Italian, English nobles, courtiers, bourgeois, mercenaries, musicians and peasants of the 16th century, taken from contemporary paintings, manuscripts, tapestries and frescos.Georges Duplessis (1834-1899) was a French art historian and curator of the Print Room of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.Edmond Lechevallier-Chevignard (1825-1902) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. He was professor at the Ecole nationale superieure des Arts Decoratifs.Condition: Binding solid, interior mostly clean except for some spotting to text and tissue-guards.

28 costume engravings by W. Hollar including the title page. Overall in good condition, unexamined out of the frame. Framed and glazed.

1860 Swedish Costumes & Clothing Scandinavia Color Illustrated Fashion Camino

An incredibly rare and highly desirable mid-19th-century collection of large engravings.
'Costumes Suedois Dessines' is a collection of 20 color engravings by Camino and Regamey each depicting costumes and clothing styles of Scandinavian men and women. These folio-size engravings are exquisite displays.
Item number: #17068
Price: $499
CAMINO, Charles [illust.]
Costumes suédois dessinés par MM. Camino et Régamey d'après les dessin originaux communiqués par M. de D ... l, et gravés par Charles Geoffroy
Paris, Aux bureaux des journaux Les modes parisiennes, [ca. 1860].

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages
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20 color engravings
· Language: French
· Binding: Softcover
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Size: ~12.25in X 9in (31cm x 23cm)
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Collection of 46 (of 48) beautifully detailed copperplate engravings of Roman costume.Examples of costumes, tools, musical instruments, furniture, room interiors, pots, vases, etc. A good many plates of Roman military costume, armour, breastplates, boots, sandals, helmets, boxing gloves, weapons, shields, chariots, legion standards, etc.Engraved title page and 46 engraved plates (numbered I to XLVIII, lacking XXXIV/XXXV) each with an engraved descriptive caption in Italian within the plate. Based on Lorenzo Roccheggiani's Collection of 100 Figures Representing Civil and Military Religious Costumes of the Ancient Egyptians, Etruscans, Greeks and Romans (published in 1804).This suite drawn, engraved and published by Domenico Pronti (1750-1815), Italian painter, sculptor and engraver active in Rome. He specialized in publishing books of Roman scenery and ancient costume for the tourist market.Oblong quarto in flimsy boards, amateurishly covered in marble paper, new endpapers. Good strong impressions of… Read More

Amsterdam: P.G. van L'Om, 1850s approx). Hardcover. Very Good-. Hand colored lithographs (16) heightened with gum on buff ground. . Duodecimo white moire covers printed in blue and red the lower cover having a lady in costume carrying a basket (rubbed and spine worn and damaged to head and foot but still together) 16 leaves in two leporellos of 8 attached to each cover. These include couple in a horse drawn carriage Noord-Hollandsche chais + Eiland-marked + Amsterdam Weeskinderen + Vlaardingen Zuid-Holland + 2xFriesland + 2xScheveningen Vishkar (fish sellers in a dog cart) & fisherman leaning on a boat + Milkmaid from Utrecht + young ladies from Brabant + Groningen + Zeeland + Amsterdam + Friesland. One hinge repaired. A nice concertina folding costume book of 165 x 110mm page size with a little light foxing and the image in a domed ground of approx 11 x 7 cm. Well colored and parts made shiny with gum arabicum.

Patavi (Padua): Petri Mariae Frambotti 3rd edition with large additions.., 1685. Hardcover. Good. Copperplates (frontis of 3 male figures & Minerva on architectural stage + 50 plates & 2 text illustratations by Ruffonus, Gio. Georg or unsigned.. Three Books in One quarto vellum-spined thin pasteboard covers (tips bumped covers damp marked). Engraved title + printed title with woodcut PFM printer's mark (Minerva with owl) +3 full page plates preceding dedication leaf +[6]ppprelims +261p; Titlepage to "Pars Altera Libri Quatuor" with larger PFM Minerva printer's mark signed DR +[6]pp prelims +213pp + [21]pp indices +"Analecta de Re Vestiaria sive exercitationes ad Albert Rubenius Commentarium, accessit dissertatio De Veterum Lucernis" with repeat of printer's mark of 1st titlepage +[10]pp prelims + 155pp +Titlepage to De Veterum Lucernis with printer's mark +39pp +[16]pp index + multi folding copy of a Latin inscription. Neat early MS note in Latin on flyleaf about placing of 2 plates.The plates… Read More

1868 FASHION English Woman Domestic Magazine Illustrated Dresses Beeton Recipes
In mid-19th-century England, there was a growing demand for literature on home-making and female interests. Numerous magazines and periodicals were published to try to meet this demand. One such work was Sam Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" – a magazine that, according to Diamond,
"targeted middle-class women and was an immediate commercial success, with its clever mix of French fashion plates, dressmaking paper patterns, designs for fancy-work, excellent recipes (by Mrs Beeton), and serialized novels."
This tome contains 23 full-page engravings illustrating dresses and high fashion.
Item number: #19722
Price: $499
BEETON, Sam
Englishwoman's domestic magazine
London : S.O. Beeton, [ca. 1868]. 1st edition

Details:

· Collation: Complete with all pages; 2 volumes in 1 tome
o Vol. I – vii, [1], 288
o Vol. II – vii, [1], 336
o 23 hand-colored plates + several in-text illustrations
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1871 EXQUISITE Lacroix Illustrated Middle Ages Costumes Knights Jesters Bizarre
Paul Lacroix was a 19th-century French author whose books covered a broad set of topics, including some controversial. Lacroix wrote about ballets, costumes, romance, masquerades, heraldry, religion in the military, and the history of prostitution. He also wrote a book, "Sciences and Letters of the Middle Ages," which covers the studies of alchemy and the occult sciences, as well as an important chapter on heraldry. Engravings depict monsters, bizarre animals, dragons, deformed humans, torture scenes, scalping, maps, flags, and more!
This tome, 'Moeurs, Usages et Costumes', features 15 chromolithograph engravings depicting costumes and clothing from the Middle Ages including ornate knight armor for both men and horses, female dresses, court jesters, as well as in-text images of bizarre occurrences like catching giant fish and chess games.

Item number: #19874
Price: $499
LaCROIX, Paul
Moeurs, Usages et Costumes au Moyen… Read More

1871 EXQUISITE Lacroix Illustrated Middle Ages Costumes Knights Jesters Bizarre
Paul Lacroix was a 19th-century French author whose books covered a broad set of topics, including some controversial. Lacroix wrote about ballets, costumes, romance, masquerades, heraldry, religion in the military, and the history of prostitution. He also wrote a book, "Sciences and Letters of the Middle Ages," which covers the studies of alchemy and the occult sciences, as well as an important chapter on heraldry. Engravings depict monsters, bizarre animals, dragons, deformed humans, torture scenes, scalping, maps, flags, and more!
This beautiful example, 'Moeurs, Usages et Costumes', features 15 chromolithograph engravings depicting costumes and clothing from the Middle Ages including ornate knight armor for both men and horses, female dresses, court jesters, as well as in-text images of bizarre occurrences like catching giant fish and chess games.
Item number: #22677
Price: $599
LaCROIX, Paul
Moeurs, Usages et Costumes… Read More