A fascinating notebook kept by an itinerant tailor who specialized in catering to the county gentry and their liveried servants, as well as military officers in dispersed garrisons. Hardbound with black morocco-finished leather boards, 4 ½ x 3 ¼ inches, closing with a brass clasp. The notebook begins with a......
Paris: Libraire de René Colas, 1933. [COLAS: COSTUME BIBLIOGRAPHY]. Colas, René. Bibliographie Général du Costume et de la Mode. Description des suites, recueils, séries, revues et livres Français et Etrangers relatifs au costume civil, militaire et religieux, aux modes, aux coiffures et aux divers accessoires de l'habillement. Hardcover. 1933. Quarto.....
Gettysburg, PA: Thomas Publications, 2012. First edition. Hardback. Heavily illustrated with color and BW images on 312 pages. "Insignia of Independence is a heavily illustrated magnum opus that reconstructs the appearance of the armies of the American Revolution in painstaking detail. The two leading authorities on 18th-century Anglo-American military material.....
London: Newman & Co., 1849. Ashley, Alfred. First. [1840S BRITISH INFANTRY UNIFORMS]. THE DAYS WHEN WE HAD TAILS ON US. WITH FOURTEEN COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS. DEDICATED TO THE OFFICERS OF THE BRITISH INFANTRY. Np. [London: Newman & Co., Bishopsgate, 1849]. First Edition. Original calf binding with title on spine and edging.....
London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-1772. [COSTUME]. A Collection of the Dresses of Different Nations, Antient and Modern, particularly Old English Dresses, in English and French. London: Thomas Jefferys, 1757-72. 479 (of 480) plates. 4 volumes. Large quarto with original 1/2 vellum binding with marbled boards (some chipping and loss to the.....
London: Peter Davies, 1940-1967. Lawson, C. C. P. First. A HISTORY OF THE UNIFORMS OF THE BRITISH ARMY (5-VOL. SET) BY C. C. P. LAWSON. London: Peter Davies (vols.1-2), Norman Military Publications (vols. 3-4), and Kaye & Ward (vol. 5), 1940-1967. Hardcovers. First editions in quarto (10 x 7 ¼.....
London: Rudolph Ackerman, 1803-1806. Pyne, William. First. [British Costume and the Trades]. Pyne, William Henry. Microcosm: Or, a Picturesque Delineation of the Arts, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c. of Great Britain, in a Series of Above a Thousand Groups of Small Figures for the Embellishment of Landscape…, 1st edition (1803-6). Contemporary (period).....
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Newburgh, NY: Uriah C. Lewis, 1819. First. Paper wrappers. [WEST POINT]. An Expose of Facts, Concerning Recent Transactions, Relating to the Corps of Cadets of the United States Military Academy, at West-Point, New-York. Newburgh, NY: Printed by Uriah C. Lewis, 1819. 1st ed. vii,68pp. [bound with] RAGLAND, Thomas. Defence before.....
Paris: Mame, 1922. "JOB" (Jacques-Marie Gaston Onfray de Breville). First. [French Drummer Boys at War]. Tambour Battant! Memoires d’un Vieux Tambour (1792-1918). Paris : Mame, nd. [1922]. Numerous full-page plates and vignettes in full color, as well as BW illustrations, by the incomparable JOB, with text by Louis Sonolet. Octavo.....
London: Longman and Hurt, 1814. First. [COSTUME]. Walker, George. The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated by a Series of Forty Engravings, Being Fac-Similes of Original Drawings. With Descriptions in English and French. Published by Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurt, London, 1814. Descriptive of the Peculiar Dress, Occupation, and Manners.....