Ancient Costumes of Great Britain and Ireland: From the Druids to the Tudors

214pp, plus 85 colour plates reproducing original engravings, aquatinted in subtle colours. In deep red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine.  Small folio. Cloth very slightly rounded at spine tips. Internally a hint of creaminess on pages, else neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket,ca little bumped at spine ends and along rear upper edge. A beautiful book reproducing Charles Hamilton Smith's 1811 work on the costume, dress and clothes of people in the Dark Ages and Middle Ages. A fascinating study of costume history, it is also a rich resource of source material for students of costume and designers.