Description and condition: Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 4to, 100pp, colour frontis, b/w illustrations. Good to very good, some discolouring to the boards, owners details on FFEP, faint spotting to fore-edge, else nice bright clean pages. In good dustcover with rubbing and small loss, now protected.
Contents: Illustrated with costumes chiefly from the author's collection photographed by Felix Fonteyn. Children's costume/fashion covering the period from 1760 to the early 1900s. "In preparing the historical account which accompanies the photographs, Mrs. Langley Moore has been equally conscientious, for in it she has made use of contemporary sources alone. She has, added, here written the first complete survey of English children's dress during the century and a half in which it has existed as an entity separate from adult costume." |
