426 - “Zur Geschichte der Kostüme”, Münchener Bilderbogen by Braun & Schneider, coloured wood engravings

“Zur Geschichte der Kostüme”, Münchener Bilderbogen by Braun & Schneider, coloured wood engravings Paper, wood engravings, coloured. Bound volume “Zur Geschichte der Kostüme” from the Münchener Bilderbogen, publisher Braun & Schneider, Munich. Binding with dark red spine and dark red corners, the front cover with colour-printed title “Zur Geschichte der Costüme” and a couple in courtly dress, inscribed “Nach Zeichnungen von Wilh. Diez, E. Fröhlich, C. Häberlin, M. Heil, Andr. Müller, F. Rothbart, J. Walter.” and “München. Braun & Schneider.”. Bound in are 79 coloured sheets, each with four costume pictures and captions, for example sheet “Nro. 305” with German and French aristocratic dress from the second third of the 17th century and sheet “Nro. 579” with the heading “Byzantiner”, each with the printer's imprint of the Kgl. Hof- und Universitäts-Buchdruckerei of Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn in Munich. Together with the publisher's accompanying booklet “Zur Geschichte der Kostüme” with a list of the sheets by countries and periods. With handwritten notes on the front and back pages. Condition commensurate with age, small glued spots. 34.5x23 cm (HxW) The Münchener Bilderbogen were published from 1848 to 1898 by Braun & Schneider in Munich, the publishing house Kaspar Braun had founded in 1838 as an establishment for wood engraving; the wood engravings were printed by Wolf & Sohn and coloured with stencils. The sheets were printed on inexpensive paper, initially in black and white and in colour for a surcharge. The series comprises 1200 consecutively numbered sheets, which were also collected in 50 volumes of 24 sheets each. Within this series the costume sequence “Zur Geschichte der Costüme” was created after designs by Friedrich Michael Heil and other draughtsmen such as Wilhelm Diez; it shows clothing and traditional dress of various countries and centuries as a contribution to the study of costume.