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• Costume -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century

• Queen almanac (Published at the Queen Office., in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mirror of the Graces: Containing General Instructions for Combining Elegance, Simplicity, and Economy with Fashion in Dress; Hints on Female Accomplishments and Manners; and Directions for the Preservation of Health and Beauty, by active 19th century Lady of distinction (Gutenberg ebook)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837-1877 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Caroline Goldthorpe (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Follies and fashions of our grandfathers (1807) (Field & Tuer [etc.];, 1886), by Andrew White Tuer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mirror of the Graces: or, the English Lady's Costume (London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co., 1811), by A Lady of Distinction (page images at Wisconsin)

• Guide to the English costumes presented by Messrs. Harrods Ltd. (Printed under the authority of his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and Harrods Ltd (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1796-1799), by Joseph Strutt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (new and improved edition, 2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1842), by Joseph Strutt, ed. by J. R. Planché
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Costume in England; a history of dress to the end of the eighteenth century. (Singing Tree Press, 1968), by F. W. Fairholt and Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Costume in England; a history of dress to the end of the eighteenth century. (G. Bell and Sons, 1885), by F. W. Fairholt, Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon, and Harold Arthur Lee-Dillon Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• English costume; painted and described by Dion Clayton Calthrop. (Adam and Charles Black, 1907), by Dion Clayton Calthrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Costume in England : a history of dress from the earliest period until the close of the eighteenth century ... (Chapman and Hall, 1860), by F. W. Fairholt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Handbook of Pictorial History, by Henry W. Donald (Gutenberg ebook)

• The History of the Coronation of the Most High, Most Mighty, and Most Excellent Monarch, James II (London, 1687), by Francis Sandford and Gregory King (frame- and JavaScript-dependent page images at rarebookroom.org)

• Guide to the English costumes presented by Messrs. Harrods Ltd. (Printed under the authority of his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and Harrods Ltd (page images at HathiTrust)

• A complete view of the dress and habits of the people of England: from the establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the present time ... ((59 Gordon Sq., W.C.1), Tabard Press, 1970), by Joseph Strutt and J. R. Planché (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of costuming on the English stage between 1660 and 1823 ([Madison : University of Wisconsin, 1918), by Lily Bess Campbell, Joseph Fawcett, and Arthur Beatty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civil costume of England from the conquest to the present time (H.G. Bohn, 1842), by Charles Martin and Leopold Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the art of cutting in England : preceded by a sketch of the history of English costumes : illustrated by twenty-one illustrations, nine plates of diagams, and a lithographic portrait of the author (F.T. Prewett : Messrs. Kent & Co. ;, 1887), by Edward B. Giles, F.T. Prewett, Jno. J. Mitchell Co, and W. Kent and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the art of cutting in England : preceded by a sketch of the history of English costumes : illustrated by twenty-one illustrations, nine plates of diagrams, and a lithographic portrait of the author (Published by T.H. Holding, 1896), by Edward B. Giles and Thomas Hiram Holding (page images at HathiTrust)

• Guide to the English costumes presented by Messrs. Harrods Ltd. (Printed under the authority of his Majesty's Stationery Office, 1913), by Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Textiles and Harrods Ltd (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (2 volumes; London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1796-1799), by Joseph Strutt
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, From the Establishment of the Saxons In Britain to the Present Time, Illustrated By Engravings Taken From the Most Authentic Remains of Antiquity; To Which Is Prefixed an Introduction, Containing a General Description of the Ancient Habits In Use Among Mankind, From the Earliest Period of Time to the Conclusion of the Seventh Century (new and improved edition, 2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1842), by Joseph Strutt, ed. by J. R. Planché
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• English costume (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1923), by Dion Clayton Calthrop (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, c2006), by Brent Alan Shannon (PDF at ohioswallow.com)

• Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis (Samuel Leigh, 1820), by Thomas Lord Busby and Samuel Leigh (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modes & manners of the nineteenth century as represented in the pictures and engravings of the time; translated by M. Edwardes with an introd. by Grace Rhys. (Dutton, 1909), by Max von Boehn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cutters' practical guide to the cutting of ladies' garments... (J. Williamson, 1890), by W. D. F. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress, 1837-1877 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1988), by Caroline Goldthorpe (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Konst och nyhets magasin för medborgare af alla klasser. (Uti Fehr et Mullers stentryckeri, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magasin för konst, nyheter och moder. (Tryckt hos Carl Dellen, 1823) (page images at HathiTrust)

• American mail order fashions, 1880-1900 : pictures and copy reproduced from original catalogs and magazines of the times. (Americana Review, 1961) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Victorian costume and costume accessories (T. Nelson & Sons, 1961), by Anne Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mode, Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert nach Bildern und Kupfern der Zeit (F. Bruckmann, 1907), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Mode : Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, nach Bildern und Kupfern der Zeit (F. Bruckmann, 1919), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kvinnor och kläder; en krönika om adertonhundratalet. (Aktiebolaget Ljus, 1913), by Else af Kleen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die mode : Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, nach Bildern und Kupfern der Zeit ausgewählt (F. Bruckmann, 1908), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Book of the Victorian Era Ball given at Toronto on the twenty eighth of December MDCCCXCVII. (Rowsell & Hutchison, 1898), by James Mavor, Countess of Aberdeen, and Victorian Era Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mode: Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert nach Bildern und Kupfern (F. Bruckmann, 1907), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die mode : Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert nach Bildern und Kupfern der Zeit (F. Bruckmann, 1905), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical fancy dress for ladies (Weldon & Co., 1888), by Weldon & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Mode; Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, nach Bildern und Kupfern der Zeit (F. Bruckmann, 1924), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Mode : Menschen und Moden im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (München : F. Bruckmann, 1924-1925., 1924), by Max von Boehn and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modes & manners of the nineteenth century as represented in the pictures and engravings of the time. (J.M. Dent & Sons;, 1909), by Max von Boehn, Marian Edwardes, Grace Little Rhys, and Oskar Fischel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Krönung und Huldigung Oscar I. Königs von Schweden und Norwegen, und der Königin Josephine M.M. in Stockholm am 28sten September 1844 : nach amtlichen Nachrichten und eigener Anschauung (Im Verlage von F.H. Morin, 1845), by T. von Silfwerskjöld, F. H. Morin, and A. U. v Schützercrantz (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The little sampler : costumes, 1830-1908 (M.J. Glover, 1947), by Mary Julian Glover (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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