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1. Paper doll.

Date:: approximately 1830?
Physical Description:: 1 paper doll (4 pieces) ; 80 x 110 mm, in envelope 120 x 400 mm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. Fashion and folly, or, The buck's pilgrimage [graphic]

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Creator:: Heath, William, 1795–1840
Date:: [1822]
Physical Description:: 24 pictures on 1 joined sheet : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 13 x 617 cm, in cylindrical case 16 cm x 7 cm (scroll format)
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1811
Physical Description:: vii, [2] p., pp. 12-17, [2] p., pp. x-xxiii [i.e. xiii], [2] p., 10-241, [7] p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. The whole art of dress, or, The road to elegance and fashion, at the enormous saving of thirty per cent!!! : being a treatise upon that essential and much-cultivated requisite of the present day, gentlemen's costume : explaining and clearly defining, by a series of beautifully engraved illustrations, the most becoming assortment of colours and style of dress and undress, in all their varieties; suited to different ages and complexions, so as to render the human figure most symmetrical and imposing to the eye : also, directions in the purchase of all kinds of wearing apparel: accompanied by hints for the toilette, containing a few valuable and original recipes; likewise, some advice to the improvement of defects in the person and carriage : together with a dissertation on uniform in general, and the selection of fancy dress / by a cavalry officer.

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Creator:: Cavalry officer
Date:: 1830
Physical Description:: vii, [1], 100 p., 5 [i.e. 6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. The mirror of the graces, or, The English lady's costume : combining and harmonizing taste and judgment, elegance and grace, modesty, simplicity, and economy with fashion in dress : and adapting the various articles of female embellishments to different ages, form, and complexions : to the seasons of the year, rank, and situation in life : with useful advice on female accomplishments, politeness, and manners : the cultivation of the mind and the disposition and carriage of the body : offering also the most efficacious means of preserving beauty, health, and loveliness : the whole according with the general principles of nature and rules of propriety / by a Lady of distinction ; who has witnessed and attentively studied what is esteemed truly graceful and elegant amongst the most refined nations of Europe.

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Creator:: Lady of distinction, active 19th century
Date:: 1815
Physical Description:: xii, 240 pages, 4 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. Nothing to wear : a poem of transatlantic origins : now especially edited for the ladies of England : with twelve illustrations.

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Creator:: Butler, William Allen, 1825–1902
Date:: 1859
Physical Description:: [4], 23, [1] p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. Male character costumes : a guide to gentlemen's costume suitable for fancy dress balls and private theatricals : 150 illustrations.

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Date:: [not before 1884]
Physical Description:: [2], 96, [2] p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. The art of dress, or, Guide to the toilette : with directions for adapting the various parts of the female costume to the complexion and figure, hints on cosmetics, &c. / embellished with engravings from designs by Frank Howard, Esq.

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Date:: MDCCCXXXIX [1839]
Physical Description:: x, 68, [2] p., VI leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts