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CHALLAMEL, Augustin.
The History of Fashion in France, or, The Dress of Women from the Gallo-Roman Period to the Present Time.
Attractive coloured plates of French fashions from pre-Roman times up until the late 19th century.
- Published
- London: Sampson, Low, 1882.
- Plates
- 21
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Sampson, Low, 1882.
- Ref
- 414
FIRST EDITION in English by Mrs. Cashel Hoey and Mr. John Lillie. 4to. 293pp. 21 fine and brightly coloured full-page plates depicting women's fashions. Original publisher's binding of quarter mustard coloured cloth and wood veneer boards; pictorial upper board featuring a gilt title and a mirror and peacock feather; title in gilt to spine; all edges gilt; patterned endpapers. Spine and boards soiled; veneer chipped along in binding. The front hinge is cracked and worn; Plates and text are fine. The armorial bookplate of "T.B. Johnston" to front pastedown. Coloured plates in order: 1. Gallic / Gallo-Roman / Merovingian / Carlovingian. 2. Capetian Costumes 1100 to 1364 / Carlovingian Costumes 9th & 10th Centuries. 3. Capetian Costumes second half of the 10th Century / Capetian Costumes 11th Century. 4. Charles V 1364 to 1386 / Charles VI 1380 to 1395. 5. Charles VI 1395 to 1422 / Charles VII amd Louis XI 1422 to 1483. 6. Charles VIII 1483 to 1498 / Louis XII 1498 to 1515. 7. Francis I 1515 to 1526 / Francis I 1530 to 1545. 8. Henry II 1547 to 1548 / Henry II 1555 to 1558. 9. Francis II 1559 / Francis II 1560. 10. Charles IX 1560 to 1574 / Henry III 1574 to 1589. 11. Henry IV 1590 / Louis XIII 1614. 12. Louis XIV 1668 to 1694 / Louis XV 1720 to 1760. 13. Louis XVI 1789 / Louis XVI 1780. 14. Republic from 1790 to 1792 / Republic 1793 & 1794. 15. Empire 1804 / Directory 1795. 16. Restoration 1815 / Restoration 1830. 17. Louis-Philippe 1832 to 1837 / Louis-Philippe 1842 to 1846. 18. Second Republic-Napoleon III 1848 to 1860 / Napoleon III 1860 to 1864. 19. Napoleon III 1865 to 1870 / Present Fashions 1870 to 1875. 20. Present Fashions 1875 to 1876 / Present Fashions 1877 to 1878 21. Present Fashions 1879 / Present Fashions 1880.
