A HISTORY OF COSTUME. by Kohler, Carl. Edited by Emma von Sichart. Translated by Alexander K. Dallas - 1928

New York: G. Howard Watt, 1928. 464 pp, 8 11/16" H. Colour plates (including frontispiece), b&w photographs, drawings, measured drawings (patterns). "In this book I have tried to show by practical examples the history of the development of dress. This attempt is based on the conviction that nothing but the original costume, if that be accessible, can be considered definitive for the conception we may legitimately entertain regarding the ideas about dress that prevailed in any period." Contents: Introduction; The Peoples of Antiquity (Egyptians / Ethiopians / Syrians and Phoenicians / Hebrews / Assyrians and Babylonians / Medes and Persians / Scythians / Parthians / Sarmatians, Dacians and Illyrians / Cretans / Peoples of Asia Minor / Greeks / Etruscans / Romans / Dress of the Byzantine Emperors); The Teutonic Prehistoric Period (Teutonic Bronze Age - Thrid to First Centuries B.C. / Early Teutonic Costume - Third and Fourth Centuries A.D.); The Middle Ages (The Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries / The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries); The Sixteenth Century (Spain / France / Germany / Italy); The Seventeenth Century (Spain / France / The Netherlands / Germany); The Eighteenth Century (France); The Period 1790-1820 (Men's Dress / Women's Dress); The Period 1820-70 (Men's Dress / Women's Dress); Bibliography; Index. Previous owner's small bookplate on front free endpaper, light browning in margins of pages, browning to fore-edge and bottom of text block, light soiling to boards, two small faint stains on rear board, slight bump to top corner of front board.. Hard Cover. Very Good-/No Jacket.