London: Studio Editions, 1990. Hardcover (Outsized). A huge heavy book containing color pictures and descriptions of fashion through the centuries. Organized into four principal sections with a scope ranging from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume offers a detailed accounting of men's and women's clothing, both... More about The Historical Encyclopedia of Costume
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1975. Reprint. Softcover (Outsized). From 1861 to 1890 the Munich publishing firm of Braun & Schneider published plates of historic and contemporary costume in their magazine Münchener Bilderbogen. These plates were eventually collected in book form and published at the turn of the century in... More about Historic Costume in Pictures: Over 1450 Costumes on 125 Plates
Southern Materials Center Inc. (Taipei) / Bell Publishing Company (New York), 1967. Mary Jane Harley (jacket and endpaper designs). Hardcover. This is a Taiwanese reprint although it is unclear whether it is an authorized reprinted or a pirated edition. From jacket flap: This is the first complete history in... More about Chinese Footbinding: The History of a Curious Erotic Custom
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. Published in conjunction with the exhibition The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of China - The Ch'ing Dynasty held from Dec. 16, 1980 to Aug. 30, 1981. More about The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of the Ch'ing Dynasty 1644-1912
New York: Scribner, 2010. Reprint. Paperback. “You can’t have depths without surfaces,” says Linda Grant in her lively and provocative new book, The thoughtful Dresser, a thinking woman’s guide to what we wear. For centuries, an interest in clothes has been dismissed as the trivial pursuit of vain, empty-headed women..... More about The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter
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