Front matter
Reading edition
ENGLISH COSTUME PAINTED & DESCRIBED BY DION CLAYTON CALTHROP · PUBLISHED BY ADAM & CHARLES BLACK · LONDON · MCMVII
Published in four volumes during 1906.
Published in one volume, April, 1907.
AGENTS
AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
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CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD.
70 BOND STREET, TORONTO
INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD.
MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY
309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA
A MAN OF THE TIME OF GEORGE IV. (1820-1830)
Here you see the coat which we now wear, slightly altered, in our evening dress. It came into fashion, with this form of top-boots, in 1799, and was called a Jean-de-Bry. Notice the commencement of the whisker fashion.