The Folk Costumes of Zurich, Schaffhausen, Graubünden and Ticino 1930

Julie Heierli — Die Volkstrachten von Zürich, Schaffhausen, Graubünden und Tessin / The Folk Costumes of Zurich, Schaffhausen, Graubünden and Ticino Erlenbach-Zürich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, 1930. 4to. 123 pp. + extensive pictorial appendix. Illustrated with 12 color and 15 black-and-white plates, 182 additional black-and-white illustrations, and sewing pattern (slipped into inner back board, complete). Laid in are two publisher’s promotional leaflets. Original cloth-backed decorated wrappers, very good condition, wrappers also VG with only minor shelfwear. Scuff to inner front board where a bookplate was removed. Complete with the original publisher’s slipcase, title printed in black on the spine (lightly rubbed, but overall well-preserved). A richly illustrated ethnographic survey of Swiss regional dress, documenting traditional costumes of Zürich, Schaffhausen, Graubünden, and Ticino. Heierli, a pioneering Swiss ethnographer, presents one of the most important visual records of historical costume in Switzerland. Very good copy in original slipcase. Wrappers bright, interior clean and fresh. Inv. H11ho