Georgian and Romantic Era Fashion Plates

[lastbloom]

Has anyone looked through this series?

www.amazon.com/Georgian-Romantic-Era-Fashion-Plates/dp/1440463646/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1309020330&sr=8-1

There are several volumes. It's so hard to tell the real usefulness of books like this from the tiny preview online! I'm hoping it has a large number of plates with original descriptions. I am optimistic, since the volume I linked to is 250 pages, but I'd love to hear what others who have seen it think.

[dawnluckham]

I don’t have the specific book you’ve linked to as the dates are a bit beyond my most common area of study. I have the 2 vol. set of the Regency era plates by the same author and publisher. These books offer ONLY visual information. The books are full of fashion plates with very little text. Occasionally there is a bit of period text in reference to a plate, but for the most part it's just the plate and the year. There is no offered analysis or any other evaluations.

If all you want are the lovely pictures these are beautiful books.

I love mine.

[lastbloom]

The descriptions would have been icing on the cake...I'm really after some new plates, and it sounds like this fits the bill!

Do you know if there is overlap between some of the volumes? I was looking at the TT site and I am having a hard time telling if each book is full of different plates, or if some are gathered into a compendium of sorts where plates from the smaller books would be presented again, perhaps with a few "new" plates mixed in. I don't want to double up.

[dawnluckham]

Of the two books I have there is no overlap.

[francesgrimble]

What is the production quality of the fashion plates like? (Accurate color, sharpness, lack of moire patterns, etc.)

Many of the best plates of this period were from French periodicals, which may be why the editor did not provide any text.

Fran
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