1927 Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century, as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Signed Binding

First published in English in 1909, this is the revised and enlarged second edition.

Volume I with forty, volume II with thirty-six, volume III with thirty-two and volume IV with thirty-two colour plates - of women's fashions - alongside further vignette and full page monochrome illustrations. 

Collated, complete.

In a half morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.

A beautifully illustrated and researched work.

With the bookplate of W.A. Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey to the front pastedown of each volume. William Foyle founded Foyles bookshop in 1903 alongside his brother. He purchased Beeleigh Abbey during the Second World War, an impressive twelfth century monastery in Essex. Beeleigh housed his library, one of the largest private libraries in England.