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
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