Whatever Shall I Wear? A Guide to Assembling a Woman’s Basic 18th C. Wardrobe

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A small but complete guide to 18th C. women’s costume, throughout the century. Includes fabric choices, sewing hints, colors, shifts, petticoats, pockets, stays and jumps, bed gowns, short gowns, jackets, gowns aprons, caps shoes, cloaks, hair styles, jewelry and more. Illustrated by Cathy (Kate) Johnson, longtime member of the Costume Society of America. Cover blurbs from Sharon Ann Burnston and Sally Queen, authors and clothing historians, and Sue Felshin, re… More >>

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Herbert Bayer: Painter, Designer, Architect

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HERBERT BAYER: PAINTER, DESIGNER, ARCHITECT [Visual Communication, Architecture, Painting.] Alternate title in brackets as on dust jacket. Published simultaneously by Reinhold in New York and Studio Vista in London, 1967. ///

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Type Spaces

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Type Spaces examines pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with the surprising suggestion that this printing shows a unified system of dimensions: of type size, of “leading” or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. He argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a … More >>

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