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001 $ 07/4026
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20190521085735.6
035 # # $z 6746
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Fairholt, Frederick William
245 1 0 $a Costume In England. A History Of Dress From The Earliest Period Until The Close Of The Eighteenth Century. To Which Is Appended An Illustrated Glossary of Terms For All Articles Of Use Or Ornament Worn About The Person. By F.W. Fairholt, F.S.A., Honorary Member Of The Societies Of Antiquaries Of Normandy, Picardy, And Poitiers; And Corresponding Member Of The Society Of Antiquaries Of Scotland. Illustrated With Nearly Seven Hundred Engravings Drawn On Wood By The Author. - Second Edition. -
260 # # $a London: $b Chapman And Hall, 193, Piccadilly. $c 1860.
300 # # $a [2], v, [3], 607, [1] p.: $b illus.; $c 188 mm. (Octavo.)
505 0 # $a [Half-t., t.p.] - Preface - Contents - [Text]; [colophon].
508 # # $a The plates are unsigned.

The printer is named in the colophon and on the verso of the title page: 'John Edward Taylor, Printer, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.'
520 2 # $a The Preface states that this work had first been published fourteen years earlier, and that 'fifty-six new engravings have been added ... not to be found in any other work on costume.'

The author states that, 'The great principle that all historic painting should be truthful in costume, and could be made so, I hope to have proved by the aid of the many woodcuts scattered through the volume ... False costume is now an unnecessary obtrusion, and not worth an excuse.'
541 # # $c Purchased in $d 1867. [Librarian's Report, RA Annual Report for 1867.]
563 # # $a 19th-century blue cloth, lower cover decorated in blind, upper in blind and gold, upper cover lettered 'Costume In England By F.W. Fairholt F.S.A.'; spine lettered 'Costume In England: A History Of Dress. - Fairholt.'
653 # # $a Costume - Dress - Clothing - Great Britain - History
655 # 0 $a Art history - Reference books - Dictionaries - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Taylor, John Edward $e printer
710 2 # $a Chapman and Hall $e publisher