Histoire du Costume Masculin Français de l'an 420 à l'an 1870

Paul Louis de Giafferri

Editions Nilsson, 1927

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No date but c. 1927. Splendid illustrated account of clothing, fashions and accessories from the early middle ages to the second empire. Consisting of 10 soft cover booklets from various ages including Toges & Tuniques Gallo-Romaines; Tenue Monacale & Byzantine au Moyen Age & Elegance Officielle Imperiale Napoleonienne. Each features 10 loosely inserted chromolithographic plates of various articles of clothing along with descriptions. Booklets are loosely inserted into a cloth bound folder with ribbon ties. Folio. (380x29mm) Wear and cracking to joints of folder, marking to cloth. Wear to edges of booklets with splitting to spines of some of the outer covers. Pen marks/notes to the covers of the booklets. Tanning and slight spotting to some edges of plates. Fair overall but the plates are good/good+
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