[Rarebooks] FS: Academy Award Winning Costume Designer's Source Book: 479 lovely Hand-Colored Plates, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price Reduced!

[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. 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 and untouched. 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.

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. 	

	WAS  $15,000    NOW   $9,500.00

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