Max Tilke — Le Costume En Orient

Paris; Berlin, For Gaston Hue by Ernst Wasmuth, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. The First French language edition of Max Tilke's beautifully illustrated study of the costumes of the east, illustrated with one hundred and twenty eight bright plates, displaying the traditional dress of various nations. The first French language edition of German costume designer Max Tilke's study of the 'costume in the east&apos.This work was considered a pioneering ethnographic review upon publication, displaying and describing the traditional dress of a variety of African and Asian nations, including that of Japan, China, Morocco, Sudan, Egypt, Turkey and Tibet.Illustrated with twenty-eight colour plates. Collated, complete.Tilke's colour plates present the costumes laid flat, in the form of a series of patterns that could be reproduced in the west. To the start of the work are thirty-two leaves of text, containing explanations of what is shown in the plates.With the bookseller's label of A. Wagner to the tail of the title page, partially obscuring the publisher's information.Undated; dated 1922 via Jisc. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, bright. Joints starting, with significant fraying to cloth, and cloth detaching to back strip tail. Boards holding firm. Sticker residue to back strip head. Internally, generally firmly bound, though lightly strained to centre of text block. Bookseller's label to tail of title page. Pages clean and bright. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .