Author: [MANSVELT, P.A.],
Title: De Kleding. [Dress]. [Original student's illuminated manuscript].
Description: S.I. [Den Haag], N. Mansvelt Academie van B.K. Den Haag, 1916. Original Private calfbacked boards. approx. 168 unnumbered LL. of original manuscript partly in ink and partly in pencil in a very neat hand. Illuminated with many full-page skilled pencil drawings pasted on blanks, numerous pencil drawings in text, some full-page coloured clippings pasted-in. Private and richly illustrated private manuscript dealing with the history of european clothing compiled by an advanced female student of the The Hague Academy of Plastic Arts, dated December 1916, Drawings of advanced quality. Student's name, N. = P.N. Mansvelt entered in manuscript. Very well preserved. Curious and Rare. (binding shaved).

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