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Vagaries of fashion through the ages presented for the general reader by a British scholar....
This classic book contains a wealth of information on the taste and fashion trends of England from the French Revolution to the 1940s, and will prove ...
A Concise History
James Laver's (Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK) classic 1969 /A concise history of fashion/ remains largely intact in this new edition. The text ...
Uses drawings, paintings, and photographs to help illustrate the history of fashion in ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, and modern Europe....
An authoritative account of the history of fashion and costume from prehistoric times to today. From the momentous invention of the needle some 40,000...
An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion
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A Concise History : 322 Illustrations, 58 in Colour
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
Outstanding reference spans 300 years of fashion history โ from the extravagant costumes of the Stuart period to such innovations as cycling knicker...
This is a classic guide to the design and production of theatrical costumes and sets. Laver provides a fascinating overview of the history of costume ...
Or, The Future Foretold
"This is the first full-length biography in English of the French writer, Joris-Karl Huysmans. His most famous and certainly his most notorious novel,...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
And Other Poems
An Anthology of Graphic Art
Book comprises memoirs of Laver's activities in the fine arts, the history of fashion, theatre design sets, and occultism....
Illus. on endpapers. Bibliography: p. 256-265....
About John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...