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1. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:
Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:
1811
Physical Description:
vii, [2] p., pp. 12-17, [2] p., pp. x-xxiii [i.e. xiii], [2] p., 10-241, [7] p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Knitting instructions.

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Creator:
Eaton, Sarah Anne
Date:
[1846?]
Physical Description:
[3], 34, [3] pages ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Crinoline : its difficulties & dangers, mechanical, natural, artificial / twenty illustrations, by "Quiz" ; dedicated to the ladies.

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Creator:
Quiz
Date:
[185-?]
Physical Description:
[20] p. : chiefly ill. ; 13 cm. x 260 cm., folded to 13 cm. x 20 cm., in covers 14 cm. x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:
Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:
1815
Physical Description:
xii, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Embroidery pattern book.

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Date:
[1808?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (118 leaves) : ink drawings ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Embroidery pattern book.

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Date:
ca. [1860?]
Physical Description:
1 volume (49 leaves) : graphite drawings, watercolors ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Male character costumes : a guide to gentlemen's costume suitable for fancy dress balls and private theatricals : 150 illustrations.

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Date:
[not before 1884]
Physical Description:
[2], 96, [2] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. Mrs. Caudle in crinoline.

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Creator:
Jerrold, Douglas, 1803–1857
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet (10 p.) : ill. ; 15 x 150 cm., folded to 15 x 15 cm., attached to boards 16 x 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Sylvia Harvey fashion pattern book.

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Creator:
Harvey, Sylvia M
Date:
1934
Physical Description:
1 volume (120 pages) : ink drawings ; 28 x 36 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. Allin, hatter, hosier and clothier : wholesale & retail, opposite the top of New Street, Birmingham : Cheap clothes and York shoe warehouse.

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Date:
[ca. 1803]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 56 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

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Creator:
Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:
[1822]
Physical Description:
24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. The whole art of dress, or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty per cent!!! : being a treatise upon that essential and much-cultivated requisite of the present day, gentlemen's costume : explaining and clearly defining, by a series of beautifully engraved illustrations, the most becoming assortment of colours and style of dress and undress, in all their varieties; suited to different ages and complexions, so as to render the human figure most symmetrical and imposing to the eye : also, directions in the purchase of all kinds of wearing apparel: accompanied by hints for the toilette, containing a few valuable and original recipes; likewise, some advice to the improvement of defects in the person and carriage : together with a dissertation on uniform in general, and the selection of fancy dress / by a cavalry officer.

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Creator:
Cavalry officer
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 100 p., 5 [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

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Date:
MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:
x, 68, [2] p., VI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. Mary Leighton collection, 1824-1860.

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Creator:
Leighton, Mary, Lady, -1864
Date:
1824-1860
Physical Description:
2 linear feet
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

15. Clothing Department diary.

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Creator:
Churm, Eileen Elizabeth, 1911–2008
Date:
1956-1967
Physical Description:
1 volume ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

16. Nothing to wear : a poem of transatlantic origins : now especially edited for the ladies of England : with twelve illustrations.

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Creator:
Butler, William Allen, 1825–1902
Date:
1859
Physical Description:
[4], 23, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

17. Rosemary Gordon fashion pattern book.

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Creator:
Gordon, Rosemary Ursula, 1923–2013
Date:
1948
Physical Description:
1 volume (120 pages) : ink drawings ; 28 x 37 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

18. Embroidery pattern book.

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Creator:
Byng, Cecilia Georgiana, approximately 1802–1881
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
1 volume (33 leaves) : ink drawings ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

19. Shockwave / Virginia Boston ; with introductions by Danny Baker & Ian Rakoff ; photographs by Derek Ridgers, Annette Wetherman, Walt Davidson, Ray Stevenson, Richard Braine, Sheila Rock, Mick Rock, Erica Echenberg, Dennis Morris, John Ingham, Kevin Cummins, Bob Gruen, Peter Kodick, J.R., Harry F. Murlowski, Norma Morrisey, Pete of Shews, Paulo, Jo-anne Atkinson, Jane Ashley, Jill Furmanovsky.

Shockwave / Virginia Boston ; with introductions by Danny Baker & Ian Rakoff ; photographs by Derek Ridgers, Annette Wetherman, Walt Davidson, Ray Stevenson, Richard Braine, Sheila Rock, Mick Rock, Erica Echenberg, Dennis Morris, John Ingham, Kevin Cummins, Bob Gruen, Peter Kodick, J.R., Harry F. Murlowski, Norma Morrisey, Pete of Shews, Paulo, Jo-anne Atkinson, Jane Ashley, Jill Furmanovsky.
Creator:
Boston, Virginia
Date:
1978
Physical Description:
128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts