Costume Through the Ages: Over 1400 Illustrations

223 Pages·2012·19.45 MB·English

by  Erhard Klepper

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Costume Through the Ages consists of 1225 numbered illustrations (counting the
unnumbered ones, there are over 1440 altogether) drawn and arranged by Erhard
Klepper. In an unbroken series of drawings, this volume represents 1900 years of
costume—from the 1st century until 1930. What helps lend the book its unique
character as an unusually valuable reference tool is the almost total lack of
interpretation brought to bear upon subject matter that might otherwise—in a
slightly less scholarly spirit—be infused with the idiom of the day.
Culled from a myriad of sources ancient and modern—including statuary,
sculpture, mosaics, monuments, illuminated manuscripts, paintings, engravings,
caricatures, lithographs, fashion plates, photographs, and magazines—the work
achieves its avowed aim of preserving the essential lines of the clothing
depicted, while meticulously rendering each and every precious detail. The
numbers that accompany most of the illustrations correspond to “Notes on the
Sources” at the end of the book.

Copyright
Publisher’s Note copyright © 1999 by Dover Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 1999, is an unabridged republication of the
work originally published in 1961 by F.A. Herbig, Germany, under the title Das
Büchlein der tausend Kostüme.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Klepper, Erhard.
[Büchlein der tausend Kostüme. English]
Costume through the ages: over 1400 illustrations / Erhard Klepper.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
9780486136851
1. Costume—Pictorial works. I. Title.
GT513.K513 1999
391—dc21
99-37497
CIP
Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation
40722505
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
FIRST CENTURY
FIRST AND SECOND CENTURIES
SECOND AND THIRD CENTURIES
FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES
SIXTH TO NINTH CENTURIES
NINTH TO ELEVENTH CENTURIES
TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
TWELFTH CENTURY
THIRTEENTH CENTURY
FOURTEENTH CENTURY
FIFTEENTH CENTURY
SIXTEENTH CENTURY
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1700—10
1711—20
1721—30
1731—40
1741—50
1751—60
1761—70
1771—80
1781—90
1791—92
1793—94
1795—96
1797—98
1799—1800
1800—1803
1804—1807
1808—10
1811—13
1814—17
1818—21
1822—24
1825—27
1828—30
1831—32
1833—34
1835—37
1838—40
1841—44
1845—47
1848—50
1851—52
1853—54
1855—57
1858—60
1861—62
1863—64
1865—67
1868—70
1871—73
1874—75
1876
1877—78
1878—80
1881—83
1884—85
1886—87
1888—90
1891—93
1894—95
1896
1897—98
1899—1900
1901—1902
1903—1904
1905—1906
1907—1908
1909—10
1911—12
1913—14
1915—16
1917—18
1919—20
1921—22
1923—24
1925—26
1927—28
1929—30
NOTES ON THE SOURCES
FIRST CENTURY