Author: CUNNINGTON, C. WILLETT
Title: The Art of English Costume
Description: London: Collins, 1948. First Edition (?). Hardcover. B & W and Color; 6 X 9; xii, 243 pages; Hard cover is grey cloth with faded gold lettering on spine; some bumping and shelf wear. Pencil number written inside front cover, as well as previous owner's name sticker . DJ is price clipped, has many tears, rubs, bumps, crinkles. Overall, pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with dozens of plates, 4 of them in color. "C. Willett (1878 – 1961) and Phillis (1887 – 1974) Cunnington were medical doctors with a general practice in North London in the 1930s; they were also major dress historians. University. The Cunningtons married in 1918. They amassed a vast collection of English costume between the 1920s and the late 1940s, which they stored in a big shed in the garden of their house in North London. Together they published on British dress history from the Middle Ages through the 1950s in their five Handbooks of English Costume, their History of Underclothes, and their Dictionary of English Costume, all published between 1951 and 1960. C. W. Cunnington also published his English Women’s Clothing in the Present Century in 1952, while three of his earlier books, written between 1941 and 1948, elucidated his own theories about dress, fashion, and sexuality. He died in 1961". The Cunningtons’ famous handbooks mapped the development of styles of male and female dress. Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings". Each volume was illustrated with quotes from novels and newspapers of the period in question, and was illustrated by small line drawings as well as photographs of paintings".2 appendices; index.. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: Costume History; Costume Design; Textile History; Clothing History; English Clothing; Collectors; Reference Collections; Gender Roles; Social History; Women/Womens' History Cultural History European History Art English/British History Antiques/Collectible