Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques

Authentic Victorian Dressmaking TechniquesAt the turn of the century, ladies of privilege could easily afford their own dressmakers, and even middle class housewives occasionally employed competent seamstresses. But many women did their own sewing, often relying on Dressmaking, Up to Date, a how to book published by the Butterick Publishing Company. First published in 1905 and widely considered the first modern American sewing book, this extremely rare volume is published here complete and

negro spirituals

of which this book is the most important

appear with a caption that includes the artist's name

books on study tools

and other basic relations

Whether you're an experienced paperfolder or you're just entering the origami world

and among the most recorded and performed music in the piano literature

contains a rich selection of Rackham's best fairy tale images: a giant terrorizing the inhabitants of an isolated village in English Fairy Tales

first-year law

books on queen 's gambits

Capriccio in C Major

To the medieval thinker