Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Two Centuries of Costume in America: two volumes in one.

Earle, Alice Morse, · 1910

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Macmillan, (1910). Fair ex-library. Green binding, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, taped spine and joints, library markings, edge wear, all pages appear intact. but pages loosening from spine.

Costume: a history of dress from pirimitive times to the present.

Laver, James, Keeper of Prints and Drawings, Victoria and Albert Museum, · 1964

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Hawthorn Books Inc., (1964). 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Female and male fashion history. DJ edge toning & wear, tear to top of DJ front not affecting cover illustration.

What People Wore.

Gorsline,, · 1961

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Viking, (1961). 3rd ptg. Fair. Detailed history and drawings of what people wore beginning with ancient history into medieval times through WWI when. Americans stopped imitating European styles. Blue binding, silver figure in ballgown on ft cover. Fading to binding edges, ...

In Style: celebrating fifty years of the Costume Institute: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Fall 1987.

Druesedow, Jean L., · 1987

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, (1987). Reprint. VG lg sz PB.

Costumes Late XVIII-XIX Centuries European and American: Costume Institute Cards: set III.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, · 1750

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Metropolitan, nd. VG PB. 10 b/w postcard size illustrations of dresses. Also laid in postcard showing a costume institute tableau 1750-75. Edge wear. Printed by The Meriden Gravure Co., Meriden, CT. Costumes look colonial.

English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century.

Cunnington, C. Willett, · 1958

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Thomas Yoseloff, (1958). G. Detailed listing of clothes worn by an English woman in every season & every year of 19th century. Green binding, edge wear.