Author: Vecellio Cesar, and Didot, Ambroise Firmin
Title: Costumes Anciens Et Modernes; Habiti Antichi Et Moderni Di Tutto IL Mondo Di Cesare Vecellio. Tome 1: Essai Typographique Et Bibliographique Sur L'Histoire de la Gravure Sur Bois Pour Faire Suite Aux Costumes Anciens Et Modernes de Cesar Vecellio. Tome 2: Precedes D'Un Essai Sur la Gravure Sur Bois Par M. Amb. Firmin Didot. Complete 2 Volume Set
Description: Paris, Firmin Didot Freres Tils & Cie, 1863. Hardcover. Half leather over marbled boards. Backstrip and corner tips edge-worn, with a little chipping on bands; small section lacking from marbled paper on front cover of vol. 2; bottom inside margin frayed on a few internal pages in vol. 1; discoloration on bottom edge of both volumes; page margins very faintly foxed, with occasional larger spots of foxing; otherwise very good condition. Two volumes, 513 plates in all. Illus. The first volume, a slightly later printing, though uniform in appearance with the second volume, begins with "Essai typographique et bibliographique sur l'histoire de la gravure sur bois pour faire suite aux costumes anciens et modernes de Cesar Vecellio," by Ambroise Firmin Didot. .

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