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Costume Through the Ages: Over 1400 Illustrations
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Author/Editor: Erhard Klepper
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Few books of costume design are more useful than this volume. Detailed drawings in a continuous chronological format provide a history of costume design from the first century AD to 1930. More than 1,400 illustrations chronicle the full sweep of two millennia of Western garb, from Roman noble to Vict...  read more
 


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Few books of costume design are more useful than this volume. Detailed drawings in a continuous chronological format provide a history of costume design from the first century AD to 1930. More than 1,400 illustrations chronicle the full sweep of two millennia of Western garb, from Roman noble to Victorian dandy, from Elizabethan lady to Jazz Age schoolboy.
Reprint of Das Büchlein der tausend Kostüme, F. A. Herbig, Germany, 1961 edition.

Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486407225
ISBN 13: 9780486407227
Author/Editor: Erhard Klepper
Format: Book
Page Count: 128
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11
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Publication date: June 1999

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