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Rare and modern books

Quentin Bell

On Human Finery

The Hogarth Press Ltd, 1976

22.75 €

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Year of publication
1976
ISBN
0701204117
Author
Quentin Bell
Publishers
The Hogarth Press Ltd
Keyword
Fashion, Women's Clothing, Dresses, Outrageous, Flamboyant, French, British, American, 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, Sixteenth, Century, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, Hats, Conspicuous, Consumption,
Cover description
No Jacket
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

New ed., revised and enlarged. Light shelf wear with bumped corners, text/interior is pristine with a great many b&w, some color illustrations. 239 pages with illustrated appendices, contents include Sartorial morality, Sumptuosity, The nature of fashion, Theories of fashion, The mechanism of fashion, Revolution, Vicarious consumption -- Archaism, Recent history, Deviations from Veblen