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A practical guide for the tailor’s cutting-room; being a treatise on measuring and cutting clothing in all styles, and for every period of life from childhood to old age. With numerous diagrams and pictorial illustrations.

Book Description

The plates give a fascinating insight into middle-class life in early Victorian England.

Dealer Notes

A good copy of a scarce title.

Author Joseph Couts

Date 1848

Binding Original binding, worn and marked but binding tight.

Publisher Glasgow: Blackie and Son.

Condition Plates 1-7 have an old damp stain to the inner margin. Colour plates mostly very good with just some marginal spotting; some of the diagram plates have some age-darkening and/or foxing.

Pages vii, [1], 27 plates (13 col.), 166, [2], 18 plates

Price: £500.00

Offered by Westfield Books

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