THE COSTUME, FASHION & DRESS COLLECTION
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A truly unique and wonderful
collection of 149 rare, out-of-print books compiled together for the first time
on one DVD covering all aspects of COSTUME & DRESS THROUGHOUT THE AGES.
Discover the history and
origins of costume and dress, from the prehistoric times right through to the
late 1800’s. Read about the clothing and fashion of the ancients including
Egypt, Persia and Greece.
Study the history of dress and costume from around the world including Britain, Asia, China,
West Africa, France,
Europe and Russia.
Also included in this astonishing collection are all 6 volumes of Auguste
Racinets ‘Le Costume Historique’.
Comprising of over 3200 pages and almost 500 exquisite illustrations that are
works of art in their own right, it is arguably the most wide-ranging and
intelligent study of clothing ever published. Overall, this is an absolute must
for anyone with an interest in the dress, fashion and clothing from around the
world throughout the ages. Some of the books contained within this collection
are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference
material for anyone with an interest in the history of costume including
researchers, historians, costume designers and theatre / stage producers. The
full list of titles included speaks for itself….
This superb compilation of
149 vintage books on DVD data disc provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great
content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books
have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to
read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or
e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages. Most of the books
are written in English with additional works in French and German.
This is without doubt the
most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by
rare-book-collections, and only available here!
The Full List of Titles
Included is as Follows:
A complete
view of the dress and habits of the people of England Vols. 1 & 2 by J.
Strutt (1796)
A cyclopaedia
of costume or dictionary of dress Vols. 1 & 2 by J. R. Planche (1876)
A history of
English dress from the Saxon period to the present day Vols. 1 & 2 by G.
Hill (1893)
A history of
feminine fashion by House of Worth (1921)
A manual of
costume as illustrated by monumental brasses by H. Druitt (1906)
A reading and
reference list on costume (1909)
A short
treatise on boots and shoes, ancient and modern by W. A. Goater (1884)
A short
treatise on head wear, ancient and modern by A. C. Goater (1885)
Aggiunte
all'opera Il costume antico e moderno di tutti i popoli, cogli analoghi disegni
Vols. 1 - 3 - G Ferrario (1833)
An
illustration of the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman costume; in forty outlines,
with descriptions, selected, drawn & engraved by T. Baxter (1810)
Ancient
Egyptian, Assyrian, and Persian costumes and decorations by M. G. Houston
(1920)
Ancient Greek
female costume by J. M. Smith (1882)
Asiatic
costumes from drawings taken during a residence in India (1851)
Bekleidungskunst
und Mode von M. Von Boehn (1918)
Beschryving
van's Graven-hage Vols. 1 & 2 von J de Reimer (1730)
British
costume - a complete history of the dress of the inhabitants of the British
islands by J. Planche (1846)
British
costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) by C. H. Ashdown (1910)
Chapters on
Greek dress by M. Evans (1893)
Chats on
costume by G. W. Rhead (1906)
China, its
costume, arts, manufactures, etc. Vols. 1 - 3 by M. Breton (1812)
Clothes, on
and off the stage; a history of dress from the earliest times to the present
day by H. Chalmers (1922)
Costume -
fanciful, historical, and theatrical by E. D. Aria (1906)
Costume &
fashion Vols. 1 & 2 by H. Norris (1922)
Costume
design and illustration by E. Traphagen (1918)
Costume in England
- a history of dress from the earliest period until the close of the eighteenth
century by F. W. Fairholt (1860)
Costume of
colonial times by A. M. Earle (1896)
Costume of
the ancients Vols. 1 & 2 by T. Hope (1812)
Costume of
the Russian empire - illustrated by upwards of seventy richly coloured
engravings by E. Harding (1811)
Costumes of
all nations by Duke Sons & Co. (1888)
Costumes of Europe with descriptions of the people, manners, and
customs (1852)
Costumes on
the western coast of Africa by T. W. Ramsay
(1830)
Dame fashion
- Paris - London, 1786-1912 by J. M. Price (1913)
Das Kostu˜m
in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart von G. Buk (1906)
Dress - as it
has been, is, and will be by I. Walker
(1885)
Dress and adornment
in the Mountain Province
of Luzon, Philippine Islands by M.
Vanoverbergh (1920)
Dress and
insignia worn at His Majesty's court, issued with the authority of the lord
chamberlain (1921)
Dress worn at
court by H. G. Bennett (1903)
Dresses and
decorations of the Middle Ages Vols. 1 & 2 by H. Shaw (1843)
English
costume and fashion from the conquest to the regency (A.D. 1070-1820) by L.
Wingfield (1884)
English
costume by D. C. Calthrop (1907)
English
costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century by G.
Clinch (1910)
English
costume Vols. 1 - 4 by D. C. Calthrop (1906)
Evolution of
dress fastening devices from the bone pin to the koh-i-noor by H. Manchester
(1922)
Extremadura
costume - women's festival dress at Monte hermoso, Caceres, ten illustrations
from photographs in the collecton of the Hispanic Society of America (1912)
Fancy dresses
described; or, What to wear at fancy balls by A. Holt (1887)
Fashion in Paris; the various phases
of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 by O. Uzanne (1898)
Fashion in Paris; the various phases
of feminine taste and æsthetics from the revolution to the end of the XIXth
century by O. Uzanne (1901)
Frauen-Trachtenbuch
von J. Amman
(1880)
Geschichte
des kostüms in chronologischer entwicklung Vols. 1 - 5 von A. Racinet (1888)
Geschichte
des Kostüms Vols. 1 - 5 von A. Rosenberg
(1905)
Greek dress;
a study of the costumes worn in ancient Greece, from pre-Hellenic times to the
Hellenistic age by E. B. Abrahams (1908)
Histoire de
la mode en France
par E. de La Bédollière (1858)
Histoire du
costume antique d'après des études sur le modèle vivant par L. A. Heuzey (1922)
Histoire du
costume au théâtre depuis les origines du théâtre en France jusqù'a nos jours par A.
Jullien (1880)
Histoire du
costume en France
- depuis les temps les plus recules jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siecle par J.
Quicherat (1875)
Histoire
générale du costume civil, religieux et militaire du 4e au 12e siècle Occident
(315-1100) par R. Jacquemin (1870)
Historic
costumes - their influence on modern fashions by S. H. Dutchett (1920)
Historic
dress in America, 1607-1800;
with an introductory chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisiana
by E. McClellan (1917)
Historic
dress in America,
1800-1870 by E. McClellan (1910)
Historic
dress of the clergy by G. S. Tyack (1897)
Illustrations
of China
and its people - a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress
descriptive of the places and people represented Vols. 1, 2 & 4 by J.
Thomson (1873)
Japanese
costume by H. C. Gunsaulus (1923)
La Russie,
ou, Moeurs, usages, et costumes des habitans de toutes les provinces de cet
empire Vols. 1 - 6 par M. Breton (1813)
Le costume
civil in France
du XIIIe au XIXe siècle par C. Piton (1913)
Le costume en
orient par M. Tilke (1922)
Le Costume
Historique Vols. 1- 6 by A. Racinet (1876 - 1888)
Les français
peints par eux-mêmes - encyclopédie morale du dix-neuvième siècle Vols. 1, 2, 4
- 9 (1840)
Manners,
customs, and dress during the Middle Ages, and during the Renaissance period by
P. L. Jacob (1874)
Mesdames nos
aieules - dix siecles d'elegances par A. Robida (1800)
Moden und
Trachten; Fragmente zur Geschichte des Costüms von H. Hauff (1840)
Modes &
manners of the nineteenth century as represented in the pictures and engravings
by the time Vols. 1 - 3 by O. Fischel (1909)
Moeurs,
usages, costumes des Othomans et abrégé
de leur histoire Vol. 3 par A. L. Castellan (1812)
Oriental
costumes - their designs and colors by M. Tilke (1922)
Palais du
costume - le costume en Egypte du IIIe au XIIIe siècle par L. Gayat (1900)
Pictures of
the French - a series of literary and graphic delineations of French character
by J. Janin (1840)
Picturesque
representations of the dress and manners of the Austrians by W. Alexander
(1814)
Picturesque
representations of the dress and manners of the English by W. Alexander (1813)
Recueil
curieux de pièces originales, rares ou inédites, en prose et en vers, sur le
costume et les revolutions de la mode en France par P. Jacob (1852)
Rose Bertin,
the creator of fashion at the court of Marie-Antoinette by E. Langlade (1913)
Royal and
historic gloves and shoes by W. B. Redfern (1904)
Russian
festivals and costumes for pageant and dance by L. H. Chalif (1921)
Select
historical costumes by H. L. Hinton (1868)
Shakespearian
costumes - the merry wives of Windsor
(1892)
Shrimpton's
series of the costumes of the members of the University of Oxford
(1800)
Spain, costume
details - women's coiffure ten
illustrations from photographs in the collections of the Hispanic Society of America
(1912)
Supplement
Latest Paris
fashions, presented to the subscribers to the Queen (1877)
The corset
and the crinoline - a book of modes and costumes from remote periods to the
present time by W. B. Lord (1868)
The costume
of China
- illustrated by sixty engravings, with explanations in English and French by
G. H. Mason (1800)
The costume
of China
- illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings by W. Alexander (1805)
The degrees,
gowns and hoods of the British, Colonial, Indian and American universities and
colleges by T. W. Wood (1921)
The evolution
of fashion by F. M. Gardiner (1897)
The follies
& fashions of our grandfathers by A. W. Tuer (1886)
The heritage
of dress - being notes on the history and evolution of clothes by W. M. Webb
(1907)
The Highland garb by J. G. Mackay (1878)
The history
of fashion in France,
or, The dress of women from the Gallo-Roman period to the present time by A.
Challamel (1882)
The
psychology of dress by F. A. Parsons (1921)
The Quaker -
a study in costume by A. M. Gummere (1901)
The regal and
ecclesiastical antiquities of England
- containing the representations of all the English monarchs from Edward the
Confessor to Henry the Eighth by J. Strutt (1793)
The theatre
of women by J. Amman (1872)
The World of
Fashion & Continental Feuilltons Vol. 6 (1829)
The World of
Fashion & Continental Feuilltons Vol. 13 (1836)
The World of
Fashion & Continental Feuilltons Vol. 15 (1838)
Thirty
original sketches for fancy costumes - specially drawn, from our suggestions,
by R. L. Bööcke (1894)
Two centuries
of costume in America,
MDCXX-MDCCCXX Vols. 1 & 2 by A. M. Earle (1903)
Woman as
decoration by E. Burbank (1917)
Yester-year -
ten centuries of toilette from the French of A. Robida (1892)
An absolute must
for anyone with an interest in the history of costume, dress and clothing
around the world – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very
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