Le Costume, Les Armes, Ustensiles, Outils, des Peuples Anciens et Modernes. Dessinés et décrits par Frederic Hottenroth.
Paris: A Guérinet, n.d. [circa 1890s].
2 vols. 4to. Each volume with numerous woodcut initials and woodcut illustrations in the text, as well as 120 chromolithographed plates. Publisher's maroon cloth, rebacked. Backstrips rubbed. Two small abrasions to title page. Plates age-toned but free from foxing. Very good.
§ Friedrich Hottenroth (1840-1917) was a German painter and lithographer and a highly influential researchers of traditional costumes and customs. This is the first French edition of a compendium of separate works that had previously appeared in Germany. At the time it was published it was the first complete works of the artist and it remains a fabulous reference book with thousands of examples of historical costumes, weapons, and tools, illustrated in full color. Item #126924
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