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BOHN'S ARTISTS' LIBRARY.

COSTUME IN ENGLAND.

GLOSSARY.

A HISTORY OF DRESS

TO THE

END OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

BY THE LATE

F. W. FAIRHOLT, F.S.A.

THIRD EDITION.

ENLARGED AND THOROUGHLY REVISED

BY

THE HON. H. A. DILLON, F.S.A.

ILLUSTRATED WITH ABOVE SEVEN HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS.

VOL. II.-GLOSSARY.

LONDON:

GEORGE BELL AND SONS, YORK STREET,

COVENT GARDEN.

1885.

FA 1363.1.3

HARING

COLLEGE

OCT 17 1889

LIBRARY

Minst fund.

CHISWICK PRESS: C. WHITTINGHAM AND CO., TOOKS COURT,

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TO THE REVISED EDITION.

RIGINALLY published as part of Fairholt's "Costume in England," the Glossary is by no means the least important section of that work. In the present edition it has been thought best to devote a separate volume to it. About 220 new articles, and the additions made in very many cases to the original subjects, as well as greater handiness for the reader, have necessitated the change. Though in some respects an independent book of reference, it will be found that the two volumes should be used together, one supplementing the other, as will be seen by the numerous references to Vol. I. The quotations have been, as in Vol. I., corrected and restored to their original spelling.

As stated above, more than two hundred new headings have been added, with about fifty new illustrations, some of which, as in the first volume, were left by Mr. Fairholt, whilst some have been kindly lent by Messrs. Isbister from the same author's "Dictionary of Terms of Art," and others have been selected by the present editor from authentic sources. To C. Roach Smith, Esq., F.S.A., the editor has been indebted for some additions to both volumes, and he has also to thank J. C. Smith, Esq., of Somerset House, for some of the many notices from wills which have been added in this volume. The list of works treating of costume, appended to Vol. I., may again be recommended to the reader, and the index of that volume will, it is hoped, with the present one, give such information as a handbook of this size may be expected to afford.

H. A. DILLON.

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