[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 18th Century Hand-Colored Costume Book Owned by ACADEMY AWARD WINNER

[charles agvent]

[HAND-COLORED COSTUME PLATES] A COLLECTION OF THE DRESSES OF DIFFERENT 
NATIONS, ANTIENT AND MODERN. PARTICULARLY OLD ENGLISH DRESSES...
London Thomas Jefferys 1757-1772 First Edition Four quarto (7-3/4" x 
10-3/4") volumes bound in contemporary mottled painted calf with 
gilt-ruled boards and gilt-decorated spines with red morocco 
gilt-lettered spine labels; all edges gilt. Cicognara 1776; 
Lipperheide Ac7. Text, including title pages, in English and French. 
Title pages printed in red and black with engraved hand-colored 
vignettes. Illustrated with 479 (of 480) beautifully hand-colored 
plates of men and women of various times and countries all around the 
world, including 22 of people of the Americas, after the designs of 
Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar, and others. MAJOR DESIGN SOURCE FOR COSTUME 
DESIGNER BARBARA KARINSKA, each volume with her SIGNATURE, the first 
dated "Hollywood 1943." From Hollywood classics to Balanchine ballet 
to the Ice Capades, Madame Karinska's costumes were legendary. Trained 
as an embroiderer in Russia, Karinska was valued for the superb 
quality and historical accuracy of her cinematic costumes; she won an 
Academy Award in 1948 for JOAN OF ARC starring Ingrid Bergman. After 
1964 her costume atelier worked exclusively for the New York City 
Ballet, with Karinska's designs perfectly complementing the genius of 
her friend George Balanchine. A few plates are trimmed closely at the 
bottom into the caption, and there is some slight dust soiling, but 
overall the plates are very nice. Plate 140 in the second volume has 
two short tape repairs on the verso. The missing plate, not too 
surprisingly, is that of Joan of Arc. Plates clean; bindings somewhat 
worn and dry but intact.   $15,000

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