Presents a collection of eighty-seven abstract designs published in Paris during the 1920s featuring the art deco motif that was influenced by Cubism and other modernist movements.
Presents more than two hundred detailed, full-color illustrations depicting medieval dress and decoration for people of all social classes, including knights, kings, queens, commoners, and ladies in waiting.
Reproduces 135 black-and-white illustrations created by nineteenth-century artist Gustave Dor? for "The Inferno," "Purgatory," and "Paradise," each accompanied by appropriate lines from the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translation of Dante's work; and includes Dor?'s drawing of author Dante Alighieri.
Illustrations and extracts from old children's books. Includes sections on street cries, morals and manners, nursery rhymes, periodicals, and books of instruction.
Presents a collection of over one thousand illustrations of Victorian fashions and accessories from Harper's Bazar between 1867 to 1898 that represent post-Civil War upper middle-class America and includes both women's and children's attire.
Presents fifty-two color plates from two French magazines of the late nineteenth century, "Le Journal des Demoiselles" and "Le Moniteur des Dames et des Demoiselles," depicting Victorian-era women's fashions.
