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COUTS, Joseph.
A Practical Guide for the Tailor's Cutting-Room being a Treatise on Measuring and Cutting Clothing in All Styles and for Every Period of Life from Childhood to Old Age.
The plates give a fascinating insight into middle-class life in early Victorian England. An international system of Garment cutting for coats, trousers, breeches, and vests.
- Published
- Blackie and Son: Queen Street, Glasgow, South College Street, Edinburgh, and Warwick Square, London. [1848]
- References
- Abbey Life 424; Hiler page 200; Seligman 1845.2; Tooley 159;
- Plates
- 13
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- Blackie and Son: Queen Street, Glasgow, South College Street, Edinburgh, and Warwick Square, London. [1848]
- Ref
- 674
Pp [1] 2-166 text with in-text illustrations. Twenty-seven exquisite fashion plates, 13 of which are hand-coloured and 17 are cutting diagrams. 4to. One of the fashion plates shows two women dressed for riding. Plate XI is misplaced. Recently elegantly rebound in half green morocco over attractive marbled boards. Spine comprised of six compartments, title in gilt to the second compartment, with raised gilt bands. Top edge gilt. Coloured plates in order : 1. The Morning Ride. (Ladies Riding Habits) 2. One Stroke for Life and Victory. (Dragoon and Rifleman) 3. The Fancy Dress Ball. (Highland Dresses, Fancy and Regimental) 4. Page and Tiger. (Dresses for each) 5. A Friendly Pinch. (Footman's Dresses) 6. Important Intelligence. (Footman's Dresses) 7. An Arrival. (Footman's Dresses) 8. An Attendance. (Footman in Full Dress and Greatcoat) 9. Grooms in Dress and Undress. 10. The Morning of Ascot. (Grooms in Full Dress) 11. Leaving the Stables. (Groom and Coachman in Full Dress) 12. A Departure for Town. Groom and Coachman in Full Dress) 13. Old Whip & Young Spur. (Postillion equipped, and Coachman in Box Coat)
