Introduction by aileen ribeiro (2 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Softcover in pictorial wraps. First printing of first edition. Book is As New, crisp and clean. Published to accompany a 1991 exhibition in New York of Horace Vernet's pen-and-ink and watercolor fashion plates done as a series commissioned for the publication Incroyables et Merveilleuses and published between 1810 and 1818. The whole set was engraved by Georges-Jacques Gatine. A full-page plate is devoted to each drawing. Titles are in French; text is in English. 8vo. XX pp.…

Hardcover. Condizione: g to vg. New edition. Folio. 320pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Organized into four principal sections with a scope ranging from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume offers a detailed accounting of men's and women's clothing, both fashions and formal wear as well as everyday garb. This 19th-century classic work has been re-edited and re-designed with over 2,000 striking illustrations. Sporadic and moderate creasing along edges of dust-jacket. Some foxing at top paper edge. Dust-jacket in overall good, binding in good+, interior in very good condition.…