[COSTUME]. RACINET (Albert Charles Auguste). Le Costume historique [...] Types principaux du vêtement et de la parure [...]. Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1888. 6 volumes in-folio, blond basane, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, spine with ornate nerves (period pastiche binding). 500 lithographed plates, including 300 in color, gilt and silver, and 200 in monochrome. The largest enterprise devoted to costume and the art of living in all times and places. Spine of volume VI and four spinebands damaged; several spider marks; some reddish brown spots.