London: A & C. Black Ltd.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1950. Reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Libris; B & W and Color; 6 1/4 x 9 1/2; 89 pages; 1950 printing. Originally printed in 1935. Hard cover is black cloth with bright silver lettering on spine. Rubbing and bumping to covers. Former owner's book plate inside front cover. DJ has sunning, foxing, small tears around edges, front flap is price clipped at bottom; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 12 color and many b/w drawings by the renowned costume artist, Iris Brooke. .

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Bookseller: Pegasusbooks.biz (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 9291
Title: English Costume Of The Nineteenth Century
Author: Laver, James
Illustrator: Iris Brooke
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: A & C. Black Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1950
Keywords: Costume;, Costume History;, British History;, Cultural History;, Social History;, Textile History;, Victorian Age;, Regency England;, Sewing;

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I carefully check and describe my books. Returns are accepted if contacted within 7 days of receipt. If book not as described, I will refund cost of the book, as well as postage both ways. If returned 'just because....' then buyer pays for shipping. Oversized books will have additional shipping above the standard, listed rates, quoted upon ordering.

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...