Name/Title
A visual history of costume : the nineteenth centuryEntry/Object ID
GT733.V57 v.5 1984Description
Part of a series of easy-to-use reference guides on the history of dress, with each book covering one century. The central part of each book is a series of illustrations, in black and white and colour arranged chronologically, taken from the time of the dress itself. These include oil paintings, photographs, engravings, woodcuts and line drawings from a wide range of sources. By the use of such material the reader is given an idea of what was worn and how, without the distortions and loss of detail which modern line drawings can entail. Each illustration is captioned under the labels of head, body and accessories. The clothes are described, explained and interpreted.Collection
Titi Halle/Cora Ginsburg LLC CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
costume--england, costume--great britain, costume--history--19th centuryBook Details
Author
Vanda FosterVolume/Number/Issue
5Publisher
BatsfordDate Published
1984Call No.
GT733.V57ISBN
713468319, 9780713468311LCCN
83014120Notes
Length: 144