A comprehensive source of historic costume in pictures, this remarkable book from the late 1800s features over 1450 costumed figures shown from antiquity to the end of the 19th century, covering a wide variety of peoples, social classes, and professional types: Egyptian and Assyrian kings, Frankish nobles, Crusaders, German knights and pages, Italian scholars, English Puritans and Cavaliers, Japanese, individual Asians and more.