Costume Through the Ages One of the finest wood

One of the finest wood engravers of the twentieth century

anyone interested in the history of fashion and costume will welcome this fascinating reference to late Victorian dressmaking

british history

arranged in a clear system of classification that includes 22 areas of related design — borders

Clarence Raymond Wylie

Costume Through the Ages One of the finest woodFew books of costume design will prove more useful to artists, students, stage designers, and scholars than this volume. Presenting detailed drawings in a continuous chronological format, it provides a history of costume design through the ages, from the first century A. D. to 1930. Culled from sculpture, lithographs, paintings, illuminated manuscripts, engravings, caricatures, fashion plates, photographs, and magazines, these illustrations have been