Encyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress, James Robinson Planche, 2 volumes, 1876, rare, fashion, collectable, history of fashion,

Encyclopaedia of Costume or Dictionary of Dress, James Robinson Planche, 2 volumes, 1876, rare, fashion, collectable, history of fashion,

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Encyclopaedia of Costume
or
Dictionary of Dress
Including Notices of Contemporary 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.

By James Robinson Planche, Esq;

In Two Volumes, Quarto, First Edition thus, in the publisher's red cloth boards, new Morocco leather spines, new Japanese endpapers, top edges gilt, illustrated throughout both magnificently and abundantly with black and white illustration and tipped in colored illustrations. Text block fine. An absolutely wonderful compendium of two thousand years of European fashion. Chatto and Windus London, 1876.

Rebound using original boards and new endpapers (Original spines were crumbling).

This weighty work would be a great gift for the fashion scholar, historian, clothing designer, set department, writer of historical fiction, and more.

A beautiful set found by The Wandering Poetess in Greenwich CT

Condition: Excellent

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Please message me for photos. There are endless illustrations -- it is hard to capture the extent of this book in the number of photographs allotted to a listing.

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