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The Colossal Book of Costumes: Dressing up Around the World - Hardcover

Joëlle Jolivet

 
9780500514344: The Colossal Book of Costumes: Dressing up Around the World
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500514348 ISBN 13: 9780500514344
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This original and fun large-format book contains illustrations of over 300 colourful costumes and accessories from through the ages and all around the world. The book is organized by theme – from kings and queens, princesses and knights to clothes for work and play and for all kinds of weather – and each image appears with a caption detailing the name, country of origin and date of each item of dress. Brimful of astonishing outfits, this volume will delight and inform children everywhere.

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Review

`Outsize and eccentric ... wonderful juxtapositions ... Great fun, presented with wit and panache'
-- Books for Keeps

Synopsis

This original and fun large-format book contains illustrations of over 300 colourful costumes and accessories from through the ages and all around the world. The book is organized by theme from kings and queens, princesses and knights to clothes for work and play and for all kinds of weather and each image appears with a caption detailing the name, country of origin and date of each item of dress. Brimful of astonishing outfits, this volume will delight and inform children everywhere.

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Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0500514348
ISBN 13 
9780500514344
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
32