1798 101 color plates MEDIEVAL Costume FASHION Chivalry

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1798 101 colorMEDIEVAL Etruscan COSTUME Fashion CHIVALRY Three quarters leather over vellum (could possibly be paper rather than vellum) Vienna-published 1798 illustrated volume on HISTORICAL COSTUMES, by Robert von Spalart, containing 42 HAND COLORED COPPER PLATES depicting costumes of the Romans, the Etruscans, Latins, Samnites, and the Sabines contains, bound together with an 18041 Spalart volume showing an ADDITIONAL 59 COLORED COPPER PLATES of medieval costumes from “History of chivalry in the Middle Ages” -- lots of lords, ladies, knights on horseback, and jousting. They are sections of Spalart’s VERSUCH ÜBER DAS KOSTUM DER VORZÜGLICHSTEN VÖLKER DES ALTERTHUMS, DES MITTELALTERS UND DER NEUERN ZEITEN : NACH DEN BEWÄHRTESTEN SCHRIFTSTELLERN BEARBEITET ("Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages"), an ambitious project that ultimately included over 400 exquisitely and vividly handcolored copperplates of religious, military and stately costumes of the Egyptians, the Greeks, Romans, Goths, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, and Franks as well as the costume of knights of the religious and military orders in the middle ages, in their flamboyant tournament colors and ceremonial robes. Robert von Spalart was an antiquarian writer best known for this multi-volume opus on the costumes of the read more

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