Figure training, or, Art the handmaid of nature , [between 1865 and 1873]
- Title(s):
- Figure training, or, Art the handmaid of nature / by E.D.M.
- Additional Title(s):
Figure training
Art the handmaid of nature- Published/Created:
- London : Ward, Lock and Tyler, Warwick House, Paternoster Row, [between 1865 and 1873]
- Physical Description:
- 125, [1] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsGT2075 .F54 1865Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/8817499
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- E.D.M. is the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine.
With wood engravings by William Michael Roberts Quick.
Printed by Jas. Wade, Tavistock Street, Coven [Covent] Garden.
The firm of Ward, Lock, and Tyler was active from 1865 to 1873. Cf. Brown. London publishers and printers.
BAC: British Art Center copy is George Augustus Sala's copy with his signature (dated 1883) and inscriptions on t.p. as follows: "a vile sciolistic, bastard, physiological book (not without a flavour of the sub-erotic), calculated to do much mischief to silly women. The illustrations are passable ... [published] about 1871." Bound in later half red calf and marbled boards, with marbled edges. - Subject Terms:
- Corsets -- Great Britain.Foundation garments -- Great Britain.Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.Sala, George Augustus, 1828–1895 -- Autograph.Wade, James -- PrinterWard, Lock and Tyler -- Publisher
- Form/Genre:
- Wood engravings -- 1865.
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