Fashion Plates: 150 Years of Style.
Foreword by Anna Sui. Edited by Karen Trivette Cannell. This book is over an inch thick, with 200 full-page plates on one side and text on the other side, and many additional images included in the introduction. The images featured are part of an extensive collection of plates held by Speical Collections & College Archives, a unit of the Gladys Marcus Library at the Fahions Institute of Technology in New York. The Special Collections holds more than 500,000 original works of art on paper in addition to rare books and periodicals. There are also some additional images from the Library of Lyon and the British Museum. The fashion period covered in this book is from the 1770's to the 1920's. LIKE NEW. Yale University Press. 2015. Paper. USED. $50.00
