CHATS ON
COSTUME
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
Fully Illustrated, and with Coloured Frontispieces. 5s. net
CHATS ON OLD CHINA
By ARTHUR HAYDEN
Second Edition. Revised, with many New Illustrations.
"A handsome handbook that the amateur in doubt will find useful, andthe china-lover will enjoy for its illustrations, and for the author'sobvious love and understanding of his subject."—St. James's Gazette.
"All lovers of china will find much entertainment in thisvolume."—Daily News.
"It gives in a few pithy chapters just what the beginner wants to knowabout the principal varieties of English ware. We can warmly commendthe book to the china collector."—Pall Mall Gazette.
CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE
By ARTHUR HAYDEN
"The hints to collectors are the best and clearest we have seen; sothat altogether this is a model book of its kind."—Athenæum.
"A useful and instructive volume."—Spectator.
"An abundance of illustrations completes a well-written andwell-constructed history."—Daily News.
"Mr. Hayden's taste is sound and his knowledge thorough."—Scotsman.
"Should be as indispensable to collectors and lovers of antiquefurniture as the author's 'Chats on Old China' is to connoisseurs ofold china."—Lady's Pictorial.
CHATS ON OLD PRINTS
By ARTHUR HAYDEN
(In Preparation)
LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN
Miss Ellen Terry as "Lady Macbeth,"
By J. S. SARGENT, R.A.
(Reproduced by kind permission of the Artist.)
CHATS
ON COSTUME
BY
G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD, R.E.
AUTHOR OF "THE TREATMENT OF DRAPERY IN ART," "THEPRINCIPLES OF DESIGN," "A HANDBOOK OF ETCHING,""STUDIES IN PLANT FORM," ETC., ETC.
WITH 117 ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING 35 LINE DRAWINGSBY THE AUTHOR
LONDON
T. FISHER UNWIN
ADELPHI TERRACE
1906
(All rights reserved.)
PREFACE
Needless to say the present work is far from exhausting the subjectof costume, which extends, indeed, over the whole field of history.For reasons of space, neither ecclesiastical nor military costume istouched upon. The book makes no pretensions to being anything more thanwhat its title suggests—a series of chats upon a subject which fills aconsiderable place in the minds of, at any rate, the larger half of thecommunity.
While many works germane to the subject of costume have, of necessity,been here largely drawn upon in the way of quotation, there will, atthe same time, be found a certain proportion of what may be describedas fresh material, the result of the author's acquaintance with thesubject in his individual practice as an artist. Indeed, the subje