Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover

Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns: Book Two, 2012, Near Fine hardcover

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North, Susan, and Jenny Tiramani [eds.]. London: V&A Publishing, 2012. 
English, Near Fine, HC, Folio, 110 7/8" x 12 1/4", 160 pp.
ISBN: 9781851776856

Hardcover in purple pictorial paper. Light shelf wear. 160 pp. Includes full-color and black-and-white reproductions of historical artworks as pattern references, plenty of patterns and guides, and other instructional illustrations. The second book in V&A's dress pattern series, featuring 17 historical designs. From the back panel: "It includes patterns for a loose gown, two jackets, a pair of stays and boned bodice, ivory and wooden busks, shoes, a hat, stomacher, linen bands and supporters, a purse and knife case...Full step-by-step drawings of the construction sequence are given to enable accurate reconstructions of the garments."