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Male character costumes : a guide to gentlemen's costume suitable for fancy dress balls and private theatricals : 150 illustrations.

Published/Created:
London : Samuel Miller, 10, Southampton Street, Strand, W. C., [not before 1884]
Physical Description:
[2], 96, [2] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PN2067 .M35 1884+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Chromolithography by Unwin Brothers.
Date of publication from testimonials within the advertising, none of which is later than 1884.
Includes index.
Advertisements p. 1-4 headed: Fancy dress balls.
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original blind-stamped purple cloth. Chromolithographed front paper wrapper and gild-bordered back wrapper bound in. Title in gilt on front cover. Stamp in purple ink on recto of first free end-paper: W.F. Greenwood. Dealer in works of art. 34, Stonegate, York.
Subject Terms:
Amateur theater -- England -- London.
Balls (Parties) -- England.
Clothing and dress -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Commercial catalogs -- Great Britain.
Costume -- Pictorial works.
Fashion -- Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Greenwood, W. F. -- Stamp.
Men's clothing -- Great Britain.
Miller, Samuel -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1884.
Wood engravings -- 1884.
Costume books -- England -- 19th century.
Trade catalogs.
Contributors:
Unwin Brothers (Firm)
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