A Cyclopaedia of Costume, Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, Vol. 2 of 2 PDF Download

Author: James Robinson Planché
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333851361
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Excerpt from A Cyclopaedia of Costume, or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent, Vol. 2 of 2: And a General Chronological History of the Costumes of the Principal Countries of Europe, From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Accession of George the Third; A General History of Costume in Europe T the period I have decided to commence my History of Costume, Rome was the mistress Of what was then considered the world. The limits Of her empire were, under Augustus, bounded by the Euphrates on the east; the Cataracts Of the Nile, the Deserts Of Africa, and Mount Atlas, on the south; the Danube and the Rhine on the north, and the ocean on the west. Our business lies with her power and in uence in Europe, which extended certainly before the birth of Christ from the Danube to the Atlantic, from the north Of Britain to the Mediterranean. It is from Rome therefore that We must start on this voyage Of discovery, and endeavour to trace the in uence of her arts and arms on the surrounding nations, whose inhabitants she, with Chinese ignorance and arrogance, designated Barbarians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."