[Rarebooks] FS: 1879 Victorian Ladies High Fashion Hats

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "Head-Gear, Antique and Modern"

By R.H. Wadleigh.
Published in Boston by Coleman & Maxwell in 1879.

DISCUSSION: The author ran Wadleigh’s Fashionable Millinery and Cap Rooms
in Boston, and this booklet presents a broad historical survey of women’s
headgear from the ancient Egyptians to the 1850s as well as several plates
of “modern” hats which are, of course, available at his establishment.
Uncommon.

DESCRIPTION: Card covers. 6”x8”, 41 pages, plus an extra page with text on
one side and a lithographed plate on the other.

CONDITION NOTES: Publisher’s pictorial covers with some wear and soil, and
a few small chips and closed tears, tips thumbed. Several gentle creases
run through the book, as can be seen in the photo above, left. Some
general wear and soil throughout. Fragile but intact.

PRICE: $125-

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