You are correct on both counts. The mingling and merging of this book (due to translations perhaps?) has been a confusion on my part for some time.
I can see what you are saying and understand a bit more now (glove related) of what it is that I have been looking at over the decades. I have a diskette library (yep, old tech) of clip art from a long gone art program which has many of bits of art from this book collection and can see how the labeling of some of them are from the uncorrected definitions. Recently, clipart.com must have obtain the rights to those images as I see them in there now. Thanks for the heads up on both counts. :) ♫ Chiara Francesca > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Robin Netherton > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 10:56 AM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: Re: [h-cost] Cyclopedia of costume > > Chiara Francesca wrote: > > This is one of my favorite costuming book collections! > > > > Thanks for the heads up. I have been trying for years to save up > enough for all 4 volumes. :) > > Are you certain you're thinking of the same book? Every edition I've > seen of > Planche's Cyclopedia is two volumes (sometimes rebound as one volume). > I still > find this on open stacks sometimes, esp. at old city or college > libraries. > > I see on WorldCat that there are a handful of libraries that list an > edition > that was created from combining the British and US editions as "two > volumes in > four"; perhaps that is what you're thinking of? It's not the standard, > though. > > I should note that, fun as this is, it is a notoriously unreliable > source. > Those of you who have seen my lecture on Victorian costume scholarship > may > recall that I spend a long time on Planche, and I show a number of > slides from > the Cyclopedia to demonstrate his habits of "correcting" costume > details and > his reliance on other people's drawings rather than actual medieval > works. > > --Robin > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
