Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England Elne Rather than a tradition travel

Rather than a tradition travel account

Spine of jacket very slightly browned

John Voelcker and John McHale

JOHN HEYGATE

Published for the exhibition at Gagosian Gallery

Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England Elne Rather than a tradition travelNew Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2005. Small quarto. Hardback with the pictorial dust jacket. 387 pages, richly illustrated with colour and b w photographs. Illustrations photos mainly in colour, some also b w. A Fine copy. A study of Stuart England through the mirror of dress. It argues that both artistic and literary sources can be read and decoded for important information on dress and the way it was perceived in a period of immense