Illustrations depicting 500 years of French fashion, reproduced from a rare 19th-century publication, progress chronologically from flamboyant headgear and volu

These color plates by Hippolyte Pauquet and his brother Polydore, reproduced directly from a rare and valuable nineteenth-century publication, magnificently dep

Shows and describes a variety of men's and women's clothing and defines terms associated with eighteenth-century dress

"Originally published in larger format as: The French archive of design and decoration"--Colophon.

More than 100 selections of day and evening wear from full-color French catalogs produced for the international market document changes in fashion from the stoc