[004276] Hartnell, Norman. Silver and Gold. London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1955. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth. Inscribed By Author. Very Good / Very Good. INSCRIBED ON THE HALF-TITLE BY NORMAN HARTNELL, plain and colour plates of costume designs, those reproducing pencil designs printed on pastel coloured leaves, blue cloth with gilt vignette and lettering to upper cover and spine, edges slightly bowed, pictorial dust-jacket (in sleeve), minor shelfwear (in protective sleeve). An inscribed copy of an attractive work, the autobiography of Norman Hartnell, dressmaker by appointment to the Queen and Queen Mother. The dust-jacket was designed by Hartnell for this work and the book is illustrated throughout with the author's own sketches. £45.00

[003138] Mann, Kathleen. Peasant Costume in Europe. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1950. First Edition in this Format. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original Cloth. Good / Good. first combined edition, 16 colour printed plates, 125 plain illustrations, red buckram, pictorial endpapers, long gift inscription to half-title, pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped, a little discoloured, backstrip slightly stained, extremities a little rubbed, chipped with slight loss at head and tail of backstrip (in protective sleeve). An in depth and lavishly illustrated work on peasant costume in Europe combining the previously issued two separate volumes. £20.00

[004779] Willett Cunnington, C.. English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1948. Reprint. Large 4to. Original Cloth. Very Good / Very Good. ISBN: . n.d. c. 1930, reissue of 1910 edition, coloured plates other plain illustrations, original pictorial cloth 10 Full page colour plates, 80 pages of plain collortype illustrations, others in the text, pale mauve cloth, pictorial dust-jacket, (in protective sleeve), price- clipped, loss at lower edge of rear panel, top edge gilt. A large well-illustrated volumme on the dress of English ladies during the nineteenth century. £45.00