Lending

This book comes in two editions, Oro Plata which is huge, 14.5" wide with fold-out photographs, and the rather small Costumes of light. I was waiting for Oro Plata to come down in price from $75 and eventually found one but it took so long to ship (about six weeks) that I forgot I'd ordered it and also got in the little one, Costumes of Light. Its easy to forget exactly what I've ordered since I order a lot of books for the bookshop. I can't afford these huge art books I so love so I always pretend to myself that I will sell them in the shop, I don't very often, I usually take them home, but its such joy owning books like these.

Fantastic book, the costumes are fantastic, the embroidery both sophisticated and naive - the evening capes often have pictures of Mary, and matadors and picadors are handsome and dangerous. The postures of bull-fighting are ballet and that aspect has been captured brilliantly in this peerless book. And I sold it to a photographer as enamoured with the pictures as I was. ( )