Pyne's British Costumes: An Illustrated survey of Early Nineteenth-Century Dress in the British Isles, Written and Designed by William H. Pyne
(Reproduction from the Costume of Great Britain, 1805)

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Hardbound, 207 pp.
10-1/2 x 14 In.
60 Full-page Color Plates.
Pub. Date: 1989
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., UK
Out-of-Print.
Condition: NEW (Unread).

A beautiful, large-format reproduction volume, originally published in 1805, Pyne's British Costumes was written, drawn, and aquatinted by William Henry Pyne. This reprint features 60 full- page, full-color plates of professional and working-class men and women from all walks of life: bakers knife-grinders, lamplighters, showmen, alderman, judges and admirals, Highland shepherds, Welsh peasants and milkmaids. Also, special entertainment events are depicted, including the country fair and merry-go-round. Each plate is accompanied by Pyne's original text of 1805, and these commentaries provide a wealth of detail a historical observation on the professional and working habits of people of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the various levels of this society and their sense of who they were. (Reprinted from a rare original copy, at original size.)