HEIERLI (Julie). Die Schweizer-Trachten vom XVII-XIX Jahrhundert nach originalien. Zurich: Brunner & Hauser, [1897-1898]. - Six broadsides: 558 x 420, (14 ff.), 36 plates. Leaves, in blue printed covers, publisher's black half cloth portfolio with corners and flaps, gilt roulette and fillet edging the spines and corners, gilt title to the upper cover, green half cloth folder with plexiglass covers by Virginie Fonlupt, closing laces. Colas, no. 1412. - Lipperheide, no. 915. - Hiler, p. 422. Publication illustrated with 36 large plates of Swiss costumes in chromophotogravure, as well as 32 figures in black and 38 reproductions of cantonal coats of arms in bistre in the text. It consists of 6 issues of 6 plates, each with 4 or 6 pages of explanations printed in Gothic script and adorned with small blue lettering. The plates reproduce the costumes of Zurich, Bern, Lucerne, Appenzell, Schaffhausen, Uri, Basel, Fribourg, Thurgau, Solothurn, Schwyz, Glarus, Ticino, Valais, Aargau, Unterwald, Graubünden, Waadt, Saint-Gall... in vivid, faithful colors. Ethnologist Julie Heierli (1859-1938) pioneered work on traditional Swiss costumes. Author of the reference work Die Volkstrachten der Schweiz, she was also responsible for the costume collection at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich when it was founded, and was an advisor to the Berne Historical Museum. The covers read, in German: "The originals are from the Swiss costume festival of the Hottingen Circle in Zurich on March 14, 1896." One flap of the portfolio restored, wetness on the edges of the covers.