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001 $ 07/4262
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20190521092012.2
035 # # $z 7765
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Planché, James Robinson
245 1 0 $a History Of British Costume, From The Earliest Period To The Close Of The Eighteenth Century. By J.R. Planché, Esq., F.S.A. - With Numerous Illustrations. - New Edition. Corrected And Enlarged.
260 # # $a London: $b C. Cox, 12, King William Street, Strand. - $c 1847.
300 # # $a xxiv (incl. frontis. port.), [5-]484 p.: $b illus.; $c 152 mm. (Duodecimo.)
505 0 # $a [Frontis., t.p.] - Contents - Illustrations - Preface To The New Edition - Introduction To The First Edition - [Text] - Index; [colophon].
508 # # $a The printer is named in the colophon: 'London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.'
510 0 # $a Planché's memoirs were published in two volumes in 1872 (The recollections and reflections of J.R. Planché).
520 2 # $a Best known as a playwright, Planché was also an enthusiastic scholar of heraldry and costume. He had been elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1829 and in 1843 had helped found the British Archaeological Association, and would be invited to reorganise the collections of armour at the Soth Kensington Museum and in the Tower of London.
561 # # $a The front pastedown is inscribed in pencil, 'S.AH.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81.
563 # # $a 19th-century brown cloth, upper and lower covers decorated in blind; spine lettered 'History Of British Costume'.
653 # # $a Costume - Dress - Great Britain - History
655 # 0 $a Art history - Manuals - Reference books - Great Britain - 19th century
655 # 0 $a Pictorial works - Great Britain - 19th century
700 1 # $a Cox $e publisher
710 2 # $a William Clowes and Sons $e printer