A Lady of Fashion: Barbara Johnson's Album of Styles and Fabrics Tapa dura - 1987

W W Norton & Company Incorporated, 1987. Hardback. Good. Good condition. Ex library book. There is a clear plastic cover over the dust cover which has some scuffs to the edges. There are stamps, remnants of a removed library record and a sticker on the front matter, stamp on the reverse of the front matter, stamps on a few pages throughout the book, sticker on the inside back cover and stamp on the page edge. Otherwise in very good condition with all pages crisp and clean.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. First edition (hardback). Folio (38cm by 25cm), 208pp. With 123 illustrations, including 93 in colour. Original cream-coloured cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition. This book is a facsimile of a fashion album put together by Barbara Johnson, who lived from 1738 to 1825. ISBN 0500014191

Thames and Hudson, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A gorgeous reproduction of Barbara Johnson's album recording her clothing in the eighteenth century, with supporting essays on the historical contest, textiles, fashion engraving, prints, trips to the theatre, and transcripts of the accounts of costs. From the unclipped jacket: "Barbara Johnson followed fashion closely. Through the album we can follow her changing wardrobe in every intimate detail over many decades -- from buying 25 yards of satin for her 'negligee' (or semi-formal) dress, inspired by a character in the fashionable play 'The Suspicious Husband', to going into mourning for members of the Royal Family." Slight bumping to corners of jacket and cream cloth covers. 208 bright, glossy pages. 15.5 x 10". As a large, heavy book this order will be packed carefully and may incur additional shipping charges.