Christmas Gift Books
Mvssas. BATSFORD, whose work as publishers of art and architectural books is not confined in time to the Christmas Mvssas. BATSFORD, whose work as publishers of art and architectural books is not confined in time to the Christmas
spate," nor in place to High Holborn since they opened their new branch shop in North Audley Street, issue a second (dated 1929) and enlarged edition of Messrs. Kelly and Schwabe's Historic Costume (25s.), a book that deals learnedly with English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Italian fashions in dress from 1490 to 1790. The study of costume has grown in practice with the taste for " dressing- up " for amateur acting and pageants, and this is a book that sifts the lore of dress from a wide field. Apart from the instruction to be gained it is a delightful picture-book, for besides a large number of small drawings to illustrate details and methods (often hidden) of the makers of every- thing worn from hats and wigs down to shoes, there are many reproductions, some in colour, of portraits by old masters and " conversation pieces."
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