The Follies and Fashions of our Grandfathers.
Category: Preserve for the Future
Location: American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
The follies and fashions of our grandfathers: Embellished with ... plates including ladies' and gentlemen's dress ... sporting and coaching scenes ... fanciful prints, portraits of celebrities, &c ... by Andrew W. Tuer.
If only my grandfather were this fashionable! This handsome book shows off 19th century ladies and gentlemen dressing for such sartorial activities as morning walking, evening dinner, riding in a carriage, sitting in a drawing room, and “Court dress for her majesty’s birthday.” Each plate is hand-colored with the addition of gold and silver. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' copy is bound in the original board and suede, with linen labels, and a beautiful embroidered bookmark bound within to mark your favorite satirical story.
This volume has a board and suede binding with embroidered title on the front cover and spine as well as an embroidered book mark. The endpapers are made from a piece of printed fabric. Three pages detached at the beginning of the book. So as not to mar the unique cloth binding, conservators will attach the loose pages to the still attached adjacent sections. A custom acid free protective enclosure will be made to house this fragile binding.
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