ARCH, NIGEL; MARSCHNER, JOANNA

The Royal Wedding Dresses

London, Sidgwick & Jackson. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0283998601) Hard Cover, 11 x 8.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and with slight bumping to most corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with slight rubbing to upper corners and some creasing to lower front and upper rear edges. 144pp. Very well illustrated study of royal wedding dresses, with all the fashion details and the associated account of social change, fashion history and the influence of royalty. Very Good (+)/Very Good (-).

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Book number: 024871

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Royalty, Fashion, History Social History Royalty 0283998601

BARNES, ALISON

Modern Wedding Etiquette

London, C. Arthur Pearson. 1961, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright gilt embossed cream cloth unmarked boards, very minor bumping to spine ends, upper corner of front end paper missing and no bumping to corners. Price clipped dust jacket not marked or torn or creased with nicks and rubbing to edges and minor sunning to spine. Very scarce. 154pp. Fascinating reminder of how weddings were performed fifty years ago. Very Good/Near Very Good.

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Book number: 009409

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Dress, Food, Law, Church, Reception, Speeches Social History

BIRCHALL, MARY

Wear it for My Sake : Clothes and Jewellery of Our Ancestors

Wilmslow, Cheshire, Wilmslow Historical Society. 1996, First Edition. Soft Cover, 11.5 x 8.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions and no creasing to covers. A very clean very tight booklet with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 17pp. Illustrative drawings of the clothes worn by our ancestors and associated text from the wills of 16th and 17th century inhabitants of Wilmslow in Cheshire. Very scarce. Fine.

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Book number: 018952

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Social History, Fashion, Wilmslow Social History

BRAITHWAITE, BRIAN ; WALSH, NOELLE & DAVIES, GLYN (COMPILERS)

Ragtime to Wartime : The Best of 'Good Housekeeping' 1922-1939

London, Leopard Books. 1995. (ISBN: 0752900455) Hard Cover, 12 x 9 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or torn or creased with faint storage markings to rear. 192pp. A fascinating and intimate portrait od the Twenties and Thirties as reflected in the pages of Good Housekeeping magazine deom its first appearance in 1922 to the start of the Second Worls War. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 008920

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Fashion, Food, Houses, Income, Arts, Psychology Social History Homes / Furnishings 0752900455

COX, CAROLINE

Lingerie: A Lexicon of Style

New York, Thomas Dunne Books. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 0312271417) Hard Cover, 11 x 9.5 Inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked with tiny enclosed tear near top of rear edge and slight creasing to upper front edge. 192pp. A very well illustrated alluring study of female lingerie - bras, corsets, knickers and stockings with most images being modern|. Fine/Very Good (+).

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Book number: 023438

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Clothing, Fashion, Alure, Bras, Knickers, Sex 0312271417

DAVIS, DOROTHY V.

Caring for Your Hair (Foyles Handbooks)

London, W & G Foyles Ltd. 1965, First Edition. Hard Cover, 7 x 4.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tiny rub near upper rear corner, clipped half-title page and no bumping to corners. 80pp. Foyles Handbook. Scarce. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010474

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Hairdressing, Fashion

SARAH GRISTWOOD; JANE EASTOE

Fabulous Frocks

London, Pavilion Books Ltd. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 1862057982) Hard Cover, 11.75 x 9.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with unmarked black cloth boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with the smallest traces of storage. 197pp. A lavishly illustrated study of the dress, with chapters on the history of dresses from 1908 to 2008, coveted dresses, classical, fantasy, sexy dresses, feminine and the dress as art. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 020059

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Dresses, Womens Clothing, Fashion, Social History Gender Studies 1862057982

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Country Life Magazine 1962 Aug 9

London, Country Life Ltd. 1962. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Name to upper rear edge. Slight soiling to covers and to two page corners. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A clean very tight copy with well sunned upper front spine corner and no bumping to corners. 288-335pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Dutch influence in English furniture, uncertain grouse shooting prospects, rise of the ocean racer, first path to Snowdon's summit, England's test hazards in Australia, renewed vitality at the Arab show, Clenston Manor and fishing with a kite'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Good (+).

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Book number: 020502

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1962 Nov 22

London, Country Life Ltd. 1962. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked very slightly sunned front board, slight foxing effect to rear and no bumping to corners. 1262-1321pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'when the wind blew white, triumphs and tragedies of the flat, Edward Alleyn's College Dulwich, coals from Newcastle, Duke of Beaufort's hounds, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, short cuts to a full creel, links with the Hanoverians, more research on sheep and the gifts of Raphael and his heirs'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Very Good.

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Book number: 020503

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1964 Jan 16 : Summer Travel Number

London, Country Life Ltd. 1964. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright boards and no bumping to corners. 100-155pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Corsica, Plants that have staged a comeback, A Dick Whittington of the West Riding - William Craven, 1963 schools rugby season, Chateau de Malmaison Paris, contrasts in ancient Aarhus, Yugoslavia for unspoilt fishing, Italy's highway of the sun and modernity at Mount Athos'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 020508

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1965 Nov 25

London, Country Life Ltd. 1965. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 1391-1447pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'new buildings at Churchill College Cambridge, the future of Covent Garden, Littlecote Wiltshire, new trends in beef farming, railway modelling at Pendon Museum, buying a Derby winner and Texel - island of birds'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Near Fine.

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Book number: 020511

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1965 Dec 30

London, Country Life Ltd. 1965. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Name to upper rear edge. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 1764-1805pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Edward the Confessor's Abbey, pioneer in art education - Lucy Crane, end of another railway line - Somerset and Dorset, the Atherstone Hunt, pre-raphaelite beauty - Marie Spartali, Houghton Hall, a year of wine drinking- fine clarets in France and the computer as a farm tool'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Near Fine.

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Book number: 020512

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1963 June 13 : Collector's Number

London, Country Life Ltd. 1963. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Very faint name to upper rear edge. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Small crease to lower corner of front cover. A very clean very tight copy with faint cup ring to front board and no bumping to corners. 1364-1469pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features '18th century French furniture, rise in the number of hares, dailing barge races on the Thames, antique fair treasures, Swedish silver, Great Pednor Buckinghamshire, elegance for the mantelpiece, growing trees on chalk, Dorchester Oxfordshire, Baluster glass and great northern divers in Iceland'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Very Good.

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Book number: 020516

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1965 June 17

London, Country Life Ltd. 1965. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Name to upper rear edge. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked front board, slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 1515-1573pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'Brecon revisited, gentle art of betting, Waterloo remembered, Richmond Royal Horse Show, Leadenham House Lincolnshire, splendour of sail ships, Georgian water jugs, sea trout fishing at night, the vet's role in modern farming, computers to control motoring congestion and catching a train in Wigtownshire'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 020517

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings

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Country Life Magazine 1962 Oct 18 : Motor Show Number

London, Country Life Ltd. 1962. Soft Cover, 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Name to upper rear edge. No marks or inscriptions to contents. Small crease to upper corner of rear cover. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked front board, slightly dusty rear and no bumping to corners. 886-892pp. Vintage social history magazine with main features 'roads and the landscape, growing peaches, the Peregrine Falcon decline, Victorian cult of the fern, Bradford-on Avon Hall, field barns of the Northern Dales, life and legend among the Masai, stately homes, reading animal tracks in the sand, Thomas Edwards architect - Cornwall, early steam carriages, Breckland's wild deer, Ashanti weights for gold dust, towards trouble-free motoring, better taste in bodywork, Motor Show stand-to stand review and how racing helps the average driver'. There are also a number of other regular features on gardening, farming, society, motoring, sport, bridge, the law relating to land and property, recent auctions, fashion, history and a large number of interesting high-end property adverts. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Very Good (+).

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Book number: 020518

Catalogue: Fashion

Keywords: Countryside, Nature, Social History, Fashion, Antiques Gardening / Farming Social History Homes / Furnishings