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Product Description: A Pageant of Kings and Queens was first published in 1937, coinciding with the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Intended for young readers, the book traces the history of the English monarchy from early Anglo-Saxon times to the first part of the twentieth century...read more
By Iris Brooke (illustrator)

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9780521235969 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 22, 2011), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: A Pageant of Kings and Queens was first published in 1937, coinciding with the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

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Product Description: This volume deals with an extraordinary and varied century for costumes and fashions. Miss Brooke's drawings present an extremely good idea of the way in which Jacobean clothing, replaced Elizabethan stiffness, gradually evolving into a formality of its own...read more
By Iris Brooke, Marjorie E. Clapper (illustrator) and William-Alan Landes (editor)

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9780887349485 | 3 exp rev edition (Players Pr, August 30, 2011), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This volume deals with an extraordinary and varied century for costumes and fashions.

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Product Description: Miss Brooke is a well known as an authority on historical costume. In this single volume she covers a history of dress in England from earliest times. The book contains an ample text, four coloured plates, and nearly three hundred drawings in line...read more

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9781443734493, titled "A History of English Costume" | 2 edition (Lightning Source Inc, November 30, 2008), cover price $40.45 | About this edition: Miss Brooke is a well known as an authority on historical costume.

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9781406793840, titled "A History of English Costume" | 2 edition (Read Books, January 31, 2006), cover price $27.99 | About this edition: Miss Brooke is a well known as an authority on historical costume.
9780878305698 | Theatre Arts Books, June 1, 1972, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Pictures and describes garments, accessories, and coiffures representative of each fashion era since the Norman Conquest

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Product Description: FOREWORD in the previous books in this series, my aim has been A to sekct interesting and popular garments, headdresses, footwear, and details of costume of the period. It is not easy in the limited space available to depict the progress of costume during two centuries, and inevitably there are omissions...read more

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9781443759427 | Lightning Source Inc, October 31, 2008, cover price $26.45 | About this edition: FOREWORD in the previous books in this series, my aim has been A to sekct interesting and popular garments, headdresses, footwear, and details of costume of the period.

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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9780887349508 | Players Pr, August 30, 2010, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: Laver's commentaries are a delightful compound of entertainment and information. Brooke's illustrations reflect the elegance and color of the period. This concise, charming and authentic review will have particular interest for all concerned with the social life of the past.

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9780713601589 | Humanities Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $10.25 | About this edition: Laver's commentaries are a delightful compound of entertainment and information.

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9780887349492 | Players Pr, August 30, 2010, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Laver's commentaries are a delightful compound of entertainment and information.

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Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Hardcover:

9780713601572 | Humanities Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Product Description: This volume deals with the design of costumes and fashions of the Tudor period, taking us from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the English renaissance. The drawings detail the fundamental differences and similarities, both in idea and style, that persisted throughout this visually rich period...read more

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9780887349478 | 3 rev exp edition (Players Pr, June 10, 2004), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This volume deals with the design of costumes and fashions of the Tudor period, taking us from the end of the fifteenth century to the beginning of the English renaissance.

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By Iris Brooke and James Laver (introduced by)

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9780486429847 | Dover Pubns, September 19, 2003, cover price $7.95

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Product Description: This valuable survey uses theatrical costumes as contemporary clues to the wearing apparel that was in vogue in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Flanders from 1260 to 1840. Enhanced with the author's charming, accurately rendered illustrations, the study meticulously describes more than 200 costumes...read more

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9780486427478 | Dover Pubns, July 7, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This valuable survey uses theatrical costumes as contemporary clues to the wearing apparel that was in vogue in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, and Flanders from 1260 to 1840.

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Product Description: At the peak of its perfection in the fifth century B.C., the glory of classical Greek drama was matched by the magnificence of its costumes. This work describes how performers were dressed in plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, and explains how the actors' performances influenced the cut of their costumes...read more

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9780837168289 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1973, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: At the peak of its perfection in the fifth century B.

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9780486429830 | Dover Pubns, August 15, 2003, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: At the peak of its perfection in the fifth century B.

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Product Description: This volume deals with four centuries of costumes and fashions, taking us from Anglo-Saox tunics and gowns to the clothing of 1300. The drawings detail the fundamental differences and similarities, both in idea and style, that persisted throughtout the period...read more

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9780887349454 | 3 rev exp edition (Players Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This volume deals with four centuries of costumes and fashions, taking us from Anglo-Saox tunics and gowns to the clothing of 1300.

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Product Description: Profusely illustrated reference documents clothing styles of all classes — from garments of 10th-century Anglo-Saxons to the splendid coronation outfit of Anne Boleyn in the 16th century, with special attention paid  to such details as footwear, cuffs, collars, and hats...read more

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9780486412382 | Dover Pubns, November 2, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Profusely illustrated reference documents clothing styles of all classes — from garments of 10th-century Anglo-Saxons to the splendid coronation outfit of Anne Boleyn in the 16th century, with special attention paid  to such details as footwear, cuffs, collars, and hats.

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Product Description: Book by Brooke, Iris, Landes, William-Alan

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9780887346354 | Players Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Book by Brooke, Iris, Landes, William-Alan

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Product Description: Great for costume design

Hardcover:

9780713601565 | Humanities Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Great for costume design

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