Historic Costume - 1925 Illustrated First Edition

Langue : anglais

Edité par The Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, 1925

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Original olive-green cloth hardcover with black-stamped lettering, decorative border, and publisher's ornamental device. Illustrated throughout with historical costume plates, line drawings, and a color frontispiece reproduced from Godey's Lady's Book (1865). Original 1925 edition; presumed first printing, not conclusively established. An engaging early twentieth-century survey of dress and fashion history, written by Katherine Morris Lester, Director of Art Instruction for the public schools of Peoria, Illinois. Organized into twelve chapters, the book traces costume from antiquity through Egyptian, Asian, Greek, and Roman civilizations; medieval and Renaissance Europe; eighteenth-century France; and American fashions from the colonial period through the early 1920s. Its detailed illustrations by Ila M. McAfee depict historical garments, accessories, hairstyles, silhouettes, and changing conventions of dress. The text includes a discussion of the Munsell color system, a bibliography, and an extensive index. Particularly appealing are the original period illustrations and the book's perspective on fashion history as understood in 1925. Condition: Very Good hardcover; no dust jacket present. Original cloth binding remains remarkably firm, with a strong spine, secure hinges, and no loose pages. Boards show age-related fading, rubbing, light soiling, and wear at the corners and spine ends. Pages exhibit expected age toning, particularly at the margins, but the illustrated contents remain well preserved. Former institutional markings include a white-painted spine classification number, handwritten call numbers and ownership signatures, and an original library circulation pocket and dated issue slip on the rear pastedown. The front pastedown bears a dated 1927 inscription. No additional textual annotations or markings reported. A sound, complete-looking, historically evocative copy retaining its original library-use evidence. Ila Mae McAfee (1897-1995), credited here as Ila M. McAfee, subsequently became a prominent painter associated with Taos, New Mexico. Her career included Western paintings, animal subjects, and federally commissioned New Deal murals. Her work is represented in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This 1925 book therefore documents her commercial illustration work before her better-known Taos career. Possible William Raymond Taylor Association: This 1925 illustrated history of costume bears repeated early ownership inscriptions reading "W. R. Taylor," including a dated 1927 inscription, together with original institutional circulation material dated July 2, 1936. A particularly compelling possible identification is William Raymond "Teach" Taylor (1895-1976), the influential theatre educator who established the drama program at the North Carolina College for Women (now UNC Greensboro), directed more than 200 theatrical productions, and was subsequently honored through the naming of Taylor Theatre in 1967. The volume's subject matter - historical costume and dress - closely corresponds to his work in theatrical production and education. Although this attribution has not been independently authenticated, the chronological and professional connections make it an intriguing potential theatrical association copy. Original library pocket, issue slip, and ownership inscriptions retained. …

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Titre
Historic Costume - 1925 Illustrated First Edition
Auteur
Katherine Morris Lester
Éditeur
The Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois
Année de publication
1925
État de l'article
Assez bon
Jaquette
Pas de jaquette
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
Illustrateur
Illustrated by Ila M. McAfee
Édition
Edition originale
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Non-Fiction, Theater

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