Costume from Duck Cottage Books

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1963. Hardback. Good/Good. 766 4to. Illustrated throughout with annotated line drawings. Condition notes: Ex-library, with library stamps to prelims, and traces of library sticker to front free end paper. End papers grubby, but thereafter pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chipped, but protected with transparent wrapper. Boards bumped but sound.… Read more about this item

London: Book Club Associates, 1973. Hardback. Good/Fair. 560 8vo. This Book Club Associates reprint of the Thames and Hudson publication is generously illustrated, in both colour and black and white. There are 314 illustrations, of which 58 are in colour. Condition notes: Some bumping and rubbing to the boards and age-darkening to external page edges. Dust… Read more about this item

London: Harrap, 1951. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 396 4to. Illustrated with material from diverse sources- not just portraits, but brass rubbings, sketches and paintings which include ordinary people. Condition notes: Dust jacket rather torn, now protected by transparent cover. Internally clean and sound except for foxing, and previous owner's name, to end papers .

London: Harrap, 1951. Hardback. Very Good/Very good. 396 4to. Translated from the French by D. I. Wilton. Illustrated from contemporary paintings (reproduced in colour) and drawings. Condition Notes: Corners of dust jacket (unclipped) a little rubbed, now protected with transparent cover. This is stuck down to the dust jacket, but with no resultant staining or damage.… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill, 1994. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 624 4to. Still a sound introduction to the topic. Condition Notes: Little knocked about externally, but internally sound and clean. Certainly a good study copy.

London: Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1934. First Edition. Hardback. Good/No Jacket. 562 8vo. Green boards with blue titles. Covers the period from the early 14th century to 1800 in approximately half- or quarter-century chunks, one chunk to a chapter. Illustrated with sketches. This book covers not only dress of the well-to-do, but also that of ordinary people. There is… Read more about this item