MEDIEVAL COSTUME IN ENGLAND & FRANCE

Adam & Charles Black, London, 1965, 3^rd printing.  ISBN 0-7136-0475-1.  Hard cover, 228 pages including Glossary and Bibliography.  Very good; brick coloured cloth with gilt lettering on spine; orange top-stain; binding sound; spine ends lightly bumped.  Dust jacket price-clipped, some edge and cover wear, age toning; some tiny edge tears and one tear at lower front fold repaired on verso.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  Eight plates in colour and three hundred and fifty drawings in black and white.  A Technical History of Costume Vol. III.  ‘For each of the three centuries, 13^th-15^th, there is a lucid account of the style and construction of the costume of the period, followed by descriptions and illustrations of royal costume, the elaborate ecclesiastical dress and vestments, academic and legal garments, and – perhaps most important yet most difficult to come by – the civilian dress of all classes.  In addition there are included accessories and related subjects such as ornaments, jewellery, armour, textiles, embroidery and hairdressing.’ (from front flap)