Folio (47 x 30 cm) with a lithographed title with vignette, and 12 hand coloured full-page plates, highlighted with gum arabic and protected by tissue guards. Contemporary quarter gold-tooled red morocco, with the title and author lettered in gilt on the spine, salmon pink cloth sides. The boards are slightly rubbed and discoloured - leaves are somewhat foxed, fore edge is slightly frayed. The fore edge margin of the first plate has been restored with Japanese paper, but this does not affect the iamge. Otherwise in good condition. Captions in both French and English, identifying the reign of the monarch during which the fashions were worn. These beautiful plates were designed by Anais Colin (1822-1899), a French painter, draughtswoman, miniaturist, and engraver. Over her career, she contributed to more than 27 periodicals, plus she published several works on historical from France and Italy. RARE. Coloured plate in order: 1. Costumes of the time of Francis I. 2. Ladies of the beginning of the 14th century. 3. Personages of high rank in the 14th century. 4. Costumes of the time of Henry III. 5. Ladies and gentlemen of the 15th century in the reign of Charles VI. 6. Costumes of the time of Louis XIII. 7. Ladies of the 16th century. 8. Costumes in the time of Louis XIV. 9. Costumes in time of Louis XV. 10. Costumes in time of Henry IV. 11. Costumes in time of Louis XII. 12. Costumes in time of Charles VII.