London: W. Lewis for James Goodwin, [1829]. leather_bound. Unpaginated. 24 x 17 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatints plates (watermarks to 1829). A comprehensive overview of Chinese contemporary costume and culture, including street scenes, tradesmen, military, entertainers, and the fashionable upper class. The volume's combination of superb draftsmanship and interest in a...... More

Paris: Aux Bureaux du Journal des Dames, 1912-1914. First edition. Wraps. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copies 14 & 15 of twelve examples numbered 6-17 on Japan Imperial with illustrations in two states -- monochrome and color (from total of 1270 copies). 184 pochoir plates, plus two supplemental unnumbered..... More

Paris: Alexis Emery, 1825. Second edition. Hardcover. 139 pages. Landscape octavo, 13 x 22 cm. 28 hand-colored plates, all with multiple images per plate, depicts the history of the French monarchy in costume, beginning with the reign of Pharamond through to Louis XVIII. Chronological Table of the Monarchy -- the..... More

London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. Hardcover. 118 [2] pages. 28 x 19 cm. Hand colored title vignette and 27 aquatint full page plates (all vignetted, except No. 27). This is the earliest work on Madeira listed in [ABBEY189] with the note, "Originally published in half roan, latter remaindered by..... More

Paris: Editions Nilsson, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Folio, 38 x 28 cm. 88 of 100 hand-colored pochoir plates, ten parts in wrappers reflecting various styles with text in French (we offer the following English translation) Gallo-Roman, Monastic and Byzantine, Capes and Collars Renaissance, Doublets and Jerkins Louis XIII-Louis XIV, Refined..... More

Paris: Chez Pavard, 1788. First edition. leather_bound. 5 pages in text. 22 x 17 cm. Seventy-four full-page hand-colored aquatint plates, all with tissue guards. Born in Canada, Grasset removed to France in 1764, serving there as writer, diplomat and publisher with a bent toward Republicanism and enlightenment ideals. Set complete..... More

Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion, 1922. First edition. leather_bound. 308 pages. 29 x 20 cm. Five color plates, 142 illustrations, and 8 plates hors texte. Preface by Edmond Pottier. Text in French. Indicies. Partly unopened, original wrappers bound-in, interior contents clean and fresh, housed in an exquisite modern binding. More

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 300 pp. Square 4to, 344 illustrations, each with descriptive text. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Covers the years 1850 to about 1870, the most productive period for Victorian architects, and the age during which a whole range of arts, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics..... More

London: Cassell, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. 135 pages. 4to, profusely illustrated in black and white and in color from contemporary sources, and reproduced from authentic documents. The author traces the history of fashion from primitive times to the present, and presents answers to the question: what is fashion? More

London: Bayard Press, 1923. Bakst, Leon. First edition. leather_bound. 240 pages. 37.5 x 29 cm. Limited edition, copy 136 of 315. Half title, 68 plates [mostly by Bakst] with printed tissue guards, 52 are color lithographs and mounted, plus illustrations, eleven colored and mounted, some printed in russet, host of..... More

Np: MacLin-Zimmer-McGill, ca 1890. Stiff Boards. Complete deck of 53 chromolithographic playing cards, 9.5 x 5.5 cm., including the "Little Joker." The Aces and numeral cards have the suit symbols superimposed over the costumes. Backs in blue and white depicting a sailor at the helm with the advertising line, "Smoke..... More

London: William Miller, 1804. First edition. leather_bound. IV pages in text. Folio, 37 x 27 cm. 50 hand-colored aquatint plates, two title pages in French and English with text describing the individual plates also in both languages. English text translated by R.C. Dallas, the commentary on the ethnic background of..... More