Shelfmark
Gk.5.03 - Gk.5.04
Author
Title
Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw F.S.A.
Varying form of title
Added title page title: Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : William Pickering, 1843.
Physical description
2 v., plates : ill., facsims. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Note
Added illustrated title page (vol.1): Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries.
Note
Without pagination.
Note
Title page in red and black, title vignette, coloured initials.
Provenance
Ex dono label of Joseph Frederick Burrell, dated 1983, on front pastedown.
Binding
19th-century red morocco over mill/pasteboards. Covers decorated with gilt triple fillets to form a border with tools at the corners; gilt dotted roll on board edges; gilt roll on turn-ins. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt fillets, tools and titling ("Dresses and decorations of the Middle Ages"). Textblock trimmed and gilted. Endpapers of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Subject
Middle Ages.
Subject
Costume History Medieval, 500-1500.
Subject
Decoration and ornament, Medieval.
Added entry--name
Pickering, William, 1796 - 1854 publisher.
Added entry--name
Burrell, Joseph Frederick, 1909 - 1983 former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51338