Historic Costume Bibliography

Illustrated books published from 1814 to 2001 recommended for student research by Barbara Anderson, Bessie Anathan Professor of Drama and Design. For additional historical costume bibliography see Costume Design by Barbara and Cletus Anderson. HUNT FA-REF-4 TT507 .A66 1999

For a current list of costume publications held by the University Libraries and their locations, search CAMEO (library catalog). Locations and call numbers on titles below will eventually be corrected as we adjust to a recent conversion from the Dewey Decimal System to Library of Congress.

Link to Drama Research Guide: Costume for research tips and other costume resources.

Surveys

Assailly, Gisele d'
Ages of elegance; five thousand years of fashion and frivolity
1968
(trans. Les quinze revolutions de la mode)
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT513 .D35

Ashelford, Jane
A visual history of costume : the sixteenth century
1983
HUNT STACKS-4 GT734 .A82 1983

Barton, Lucy
Historic costume for the stage.
Illustrated by David Sarvis
1935
HUNT STACKS-4 PN2067 .B3

Boucher, Francois Leon Louis
20,000 years of fashion; the history of costume and personal adornment
1967;1987
(trans. Histoire de costume en Occident)
HUNT FA-REF GT510 .B6713 1987

Histoire du costume en Occident de l'antiquite a nos jours
Boucher, Francois Leon Louis
1965
OVRSZQ- 746.9 B75H

Braun, L. et.al.
Costumes through the ages : the evolution of styles of dress
illustrated in 250 plates and over 1500 figures : drawings.
1981
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT580 .C67 1982

Braun & Schneider
Historic costume in pictures
1975
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT513 .H57 1975

Bruhn, Wolfgang and Tilke, Max
A pictorial history of costume; a survey of all periods and peoples from antiquity to modern times including national costume in Europe and non-European countries.
1955
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 746.9 B889KAAA

Boehn, Max von
Die mode; menschen und moden im sechzehnten jahrhundert, nach
bildern und stichen der zeit ausgewahlt und geschildert
1923
HUNT STACKS-4 GT510 .B64X 1923

Boehn, Max von
Die mode; menschen und moden im mittelalter vom untergang der
alen welt bis zur renaissance, nach bildern und kunstwerken der
zeit ausgewahlt und geschildert
1925
HUNT STACKS-4 GT575 .B6 1925

Bruhn, Wolfgang
Encyclopedie du costume : des peuples de l'antiquite a
nos jours ainsi que les costumes nationaux et regionaux dans le monde.
1955
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 746.9 B889KAA

Contini, Mila
5000 years of fashion
1979
HUNT STACKS-4 GT511 .C66

Contini, Mila
Fashion, from ancient Egypt to the present day. [translated from the Italian]
1965
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT513 .C5813 1965A

Cumming, Valerie. A visual history of costume : the seventeenth century
1984
HUNT STACKS-4 GT735 .C79 1984

Davenport , Millia.
The book of costume
1948
OFFSITE
746.9 D24B Vols 1-2

Gorsline, Douglas W.
What people wore; a visual history of dress from ancient times to twentieth-century America.
1952
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT513 .G6

Hottenroth, Friedrich. Traduction par M. John Bernhoff
Le costume chez les peuples anciens et modernes, nouvelle series
circa 1930
HUNT STACKS-4 GT902 .H67X

Kelly, Francis Michael
Historic costume; a chronicle of fashion in Western Europe,1490-1790.
HUNT STACKS-4 GT720 .K4 1925
HUNT STACKS-4 GT720 .K4 1929A
HUNT STACKS-4 746.9 K29H2A 1988

Kohler, Karl. Edited and augm. by Emma von Sichart.
A history of costume.
1963
Translated by Alexander K. Dallas. With over 600 illus. and patterns
HUNT STACKS-4 GT510 .K6 1963

Laver, James
The concise history of costume and fashion
HUNT STACKS-4 GT510 .L286 1969B

Costume and fashion : a concise history.
concluding chapter by Christina Probert
1982
HUNT STACKS-4 GT511 .L39 1982;2002

Laver, James
Costume illustration: the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Victoria and Albert Museum
1951
HUNT STACKS TT509 .V525 1951

Laver, James
Costume of the Western World: Fashions of the Renaissance in England, France, Spain and Holland
1951
HUNT STACKS-4 GT510 .L3

Lister, Margot
Costume: an illustrated survey from ancient times to the twentieth century.
1968
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT513 .L5 1968

Norris, Herbert
Costume & fashion
1940
The evolution of European dress through the earlier ages. 2d ed.--v. 2. Senlac to Bosworth, 1066-1485. 2d ed.--v. 3. The Tudors.--v. 6. The nineteenth century.
HUNT STACKS-4 746.9 N85C and GT720 .N6X

Payne, Blanche. Drawings by Elizabeth Curtis
History of costume, from the ancient Egyptians to the twentieth century
1965
HUNT STACKS-4 GT510 .P35

Ribeiro, Aileen and Cumming, Valerie
The visual history of costume
1989
OVRSZQ-4 GT733 .V57 1989
FA-REF-4 GT733 .V57 1989

Rosenberg, Adolf.
Geschichte des Kostums
1905
OVRSZQ-4 746.9 R81G Vols. 1-5

Russell, Douglas A.
Costume history and style
1983
HUNT STACKS-4 GT511 .R87 1983

Squire, Geoffrey
Dress and society, 1560-1970
1974
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 746.9 S772D

Stibbert, Frederic, d. 1906.
Civil and military clothing in Europe, from the first to the eighteenth century.
1968
First published in 1914, with captions in Italian by A. Lensi, under title Abiti e fogge civile a militari dal I al XVII secolo.
HUNT STACKS-4 GT720 .S6813 1968

Thiel, Erika.
Geschichte des Kostums; europaische Mode von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Mit 64 Farbtafeln und 548 einfarbigen Abbildungen
1960
HUNT STACKS-4 GT720 .T45

Walkup, Fairfax (Proudfit) Mrs.
Dressing the part; a history of costume for the theatre
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 PN2067 .W3 1938
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 PN2067 .W3 1950

Wilcox, Ruth Turner, 1888-
The mode in costume
1958
HUNT
OVRSZQ-4 GT510 .W55 1958

Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825-1893
Le costume historique
1888
NON-CIRC-Q GT513 .R2 VOLS. 1,3,4,5,6

Antiquity (Greek, Roman,Hellenistic: 320 B.C - 1100 A.D.)

Abrahams, Ethel Beatrice.
Greek dress; a study of the costumes worn in ancient Greece, from pre-Hellenic times to the Hellenistic age
1908
STACKS-4 746.9 A15G

Chamoux, Francois. Translated from the French by Mary Ilford and Inge Sonn
Greek art.
1966
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 N5630 .C453

Charbonneaux, Jean, Roland Martin and Francois Villard. Translated from the French by James Emmons.
Classical Greek art (480-330 B.C.)
No longer in library; use interlibrary loan

Cook, Robert Manuel.
Greek art: its development, character, and influence
1972
HUNT STACKS-4 N5630 .C73 1973

Herford , Mary Antonie Beatrice
A handbook of Greek vase painting
1919
HUNT STACKS-4 NK4645 .H4

Havelock , Christine Mitchell
Hellenistic art; the art of the classical world from the death of
Alexander the Great to the Battle of Actium
1970
HUNT STACKS-4 N5630 .H37

Hale, William Harlan; editors of Horizon magazine
The Horizon book of ancient Greece
1965
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 DF77 .H32

Hamilton, William (Sir)
Outlines from the figures and compositions upon the Greek,
Roman, and Etruscan vases of the late Sir William Hamilton :
with engraved borders / drawn and engraved by the late Mr. Kirk
1814
DESK-4-NON 709.38 H18

Holloway, R. Ross
A view of Greek art
1973
HUNT STACKS-4 N5630 .H64

Hope, Thomas
Costumes of the Greeks and Romans (formerly titled: Costume of the ancients)
1962
HUNT STACKS-4 GT545 .H6 1962

Klepper, Erhard. Introduced by James Laver
Costume in antiquity; 480 illustrations
1964
HUNT STACKS-4 GT530 .K513

Richter, Gisela Marie Augusta
Attic red-figured vases
1958
HUNT STACKS-4 NK4649 .R5 1958

Robertson, Martin
A shorter history of Greek art
1981
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 N5630 .R632

Robertson, Martin
Greek painting
1959
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND110 .R6

Schoder, Raymond V.
Masterpieces of Greek art
1960
HUNT STACKS-4 N5630 .S35

Seltman, Charles Theodore
Approach to Greek art
1948
HUNT STACKS-4 N5630 .S4

Middle Ages and Gothic (1200-c.1425)

Cunnington, Phillis Emily
Medieval and Tudor costume
1972 (Search Cameo for status)

Brook, Iris
English costume of the later middle ages: the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
1935
STACKS-4 GT732 .B7

Cunnington, C. Willett (1878-1961) and Cunnington, Phillis
Handbook of English mediaeval costume
With illus. by Barbara Phillipson and Catherine Lucas
1969
HUNT STACKS-4 GT732 .C84 1969

Dupont, Jacques and Gnudi, Cesare. Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Gothic painting
1954
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND140 .D85

Houston, Mary Galway, (1871-?)
Medieval costume in England & France, the 13th, and 14th and 15th centuries. With 8 plates in colour and 350 drawings in black and white
1939
HUNT STACKS-4 GT510 .H65

Jacob, P. L. (1806-1884)
The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
1964
STACKS-4 709.401 L14A (Vol. 3)

Lee, Lawrence, George Seddon, Francis Stephens
Stained glass with photos. by Sonia Halliday and Laura Lushington
1976
HUNT OVRSZQ NK5306 .L43 and NK5304 .L38 1967

Lemoisne, Paul Andre.
Gothic painting in France, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
1931
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND543 .L43

Morey, Charles Rufus (1877-?)
Medieval art
1942
HUNT STACKS-4 N5970 .M6

Rothe, Edith. Medieval book illumination in Europe; the collections of the German Democratic Republic.
Translated from the German by Mary Whittall
1968

Porcher, Jean. Translated from the French by Julian Brown.
Medieval French miniatures
1960
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND3147 .P643

Scott, Margaret
Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500
1980
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 746.9 S42L

Shaw, Henry (1800-1873)
Dresses and decorations in the Middle Ages
HUNT STACKS-4 and OVRSZQ-4 746.9 S53D 2 vols. 1958
HUNT SPEC-FBQ-4 1843

Sronkova, Olga. Translated by Greta Hort. The French resume translated by Emil Fiala.
Gothic woman's fashion
1954
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT835 .S7

Witzleben, Elisabeth von. Translated from the German by Francisca Garvie
Stained glass in French cathedrals
1968
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NK5349 .A2 W53 1968B

Unterkircher, Franz. A treasury of illuminated manuscripts; a selection of miniatures
from manuscripts in the Austrian National Library
Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn
Vienna . Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek
1967
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND2898 .U58X 1967

France

Jourdain, Francis
Chardin ( 1699-1779)
1940
HUNT STACKS-4 ND553 .C4 T6

Laver, James,ed.
Le costume, des Tudor a Louis XIII
1950
HUNT STACKS-4 GT853 .L3

Piton, Camille (1842-1917)
Le costume civil en France du XIIIe au XIXe siecle : ouvrage orne de 700 illustrations directes par la photographie, d'apres les documents du temps (statues, peintures murales, tapisseries, vitraux, etc.)
1926
 HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT850 .P5

Reau, Louis. Translated from the French by Mary Chamot
French painting in the XIVth, XVth and XVIth centuries
1939
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND545 .R43

Ternois, Daniel
L'art de Jacques Callot
1962
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 767 C16T

Weigert, Roger Armand.
Bonnart: Personnages de qualite, 1680-1715
1956
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT585 .W4

Wildenstein, Georges
Chardin
1933
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND553 .C4 W5

Great Britain

Ashdown, Emily Jessie. (Mrs. Charles H.)
British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical).Illustrated ... from original costumes and from illuminated mss., missals, brasses, effigies, etc., from original research in the Manuscript department to the British museum and in various national collections
1910
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .A7X

Beckett, R. B.
Hogarth
 1949
HUNT STACKS-4 ND497 .H7 B4

Bindman, David
Hogarth
1981
HUNT STACKS-4 N6797 .H6 B56

Borenius, Tancred, 1885-
English painting in the XVIIIth century
1938
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 759.2 B732

Brooke, Iris
English costume of the seventeenth century
Drawn and described by Iris Brooke
HUNT STACKS-4 GT735 .B7 1950 ;1934

Brooke, Iris
English costume in the age of Elizabeth: the sixteenth century
Drawn and described by Iris Brooke
1938; 1950
HUNT STACKS-4 GT734 .B7 1950; 1938

Byrde, Penelope
The male image : men's fashion in Britain, 1300-1970.
1979
HUNT STACKS-4 GT733 .B9

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937
English costume.
I. Early English.--II. Middle ages.--III. Tudor and Stuart.--IV. Georgian.
1906
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .C2 1906

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937
English costume painted and described
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .C2 1907

Clinch, George, 1860-1921
English costume from prehistoric times to the end of the eighteenth century
With one hundred and thirty-one illustrations
 HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .C55X 1910

Cunnington, Cecil Willett, 1878-1961
The art of English costume
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .C85 1948

Cunnington, Cecil Willett and Phillis
Handbook of English costume in the sixteenth century
1945-1959; 1970 rev. ed.
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .C87

Cunnington, Cecil Willett, Cunnington, Phillis and Barbara Phillipson
Handbook of English costume in the seventeenth century
1970
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .C872 1970B


Fairholt, F. W (Frederick William), 1814-1866
Costume in England
1909-1910
HUNT STACKS-4 GT730 .F2 1909 Vols 1-2.

Kelly, Francis Michael, 1879-
Shakespearian costume for stage and screen
 with nine plates and ninety three line drawings
1938
HUNT STACKS-4 PR3091 .K4

Laver, James
English costume of the eighteenth century
drawn by Iris Brooke, described by James Laver (1899-)
1945
HUNT STACKS-4 GT736 .L3

Macklin, Herbert Walter, 1866?-1917
The brasses of England with eighty-five illustrations
1907
HUNT STACKS-4 739 M15

Morse, Harriet (Klamroth) Mrs., 1891- ed.
Elizabethan pageantry, a pictorial survey of costume and its commentators from
c. 1560-1620
1934
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT585 .M6

Norris, Malcolm
Brass rubbing
1966
HUNT STACKS-4 NK7804 .N6

Shep R.L., ed.
Early Victorian men
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 TT590 .E24 2001

Yarwood, Doreen
English costume from the second century B.C. to 1960, with
introductory chapters on the ancient civilisations
1964 2nd revised ed.
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT730 .Y3 1961

Holland and Flanders 12th-17th centuries

Benesch, Otto
The drawings of Rembrandt. [A critical and chronological catalogue]
1954-1957
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 741 R384B VOLS 1-6

Lassaigne, Jacques. Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Flemish painting
1957
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND665 .L33 Vols. 1-2

Levitin, Yevgeny ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Baratt
Rembrandt : etchings
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NE2054 .5.R4 A4 1973

Michel, Edouard. Translated from the French,
by Prudence Montagu-Pollock
Flemish painting in the XVIIth century
1939
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND666 .M52

Schild, Constance, ed.
The complete etchings of Rembrandt
containing 401 etchings
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 NE2165 .R5 A4 1937

Slive, Seymour
Frans Hals
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND1329 .H33 A4 1989; 759.9492 H19S Vols. 1-2

Wedgwood, C. V (Cicely Veronica) and editors of Time-Life Books.  
The world of Rubens, 1577-1640.
1967
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND673 .R9 W4

Renaissance Italy

Argan, Giulio Carlo. Translated from the Italian by James Emmons
Botticelli: biographical and critical study.
1957
HUNT STACKS-4 ND623 .B7 A713

Bortolon, Liana. Translated [from the Italian] by C. J. Richards
The life and times of Leonardo
1968
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND623 .L5 B673

Goldschelder, Ludwig (1806-)
Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519.
1944
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 759.5 L62G2

Lauts, Jan, ed.Translated from the German by Erica Millman (introductory text) and Marguerite Kay (catalogue)
Paintings and drawings (of Vitorre Carpaccio 1455?-1525)
1962
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND623 .C3 L33

Marchini, Giuseppe
Italian stained glass windows
1956
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 729.8 M31I

Venturi, Lionello
Botticelli
1937
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND623 .B7 V42

Venturi, Lionello, 1885-1961. Historical surveys by Rosabianca Skira-Venturi. Translated by Stuart Gilbert
Italian painting.
1950
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 ND622 .V4 Vols. 1-3

North America

Earle, Alice (Morse) 1853-1911.
Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX
1903
HUNT STACKS-4 GT605 .E2 VOLS 1-2
Volume 1 available as an e-book via Project Gutenberg

McClellan, Elisabeth, 1851-1920.
History of American costume, 1607-1870; with an introductory
chapter on dress in the Spanish and French settlements in Florida and Louisana.
Illustrations in colour, pen and ink, and half-tone by Sophie B. Steel ... and Cecil W. Trout; reproductions from photographs of rare portraits, original garments, etc
HUNT STACKS-4 GT607 .M22 1937; 1969

Grafton, Carol Belanger.
Fashions of the thirties : 476 authentic copyright-free illustrations.
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT596 .F38 1993

Wilcox, Ruth Turner, 1888-
Five centuries of American costume
1963
HUNT STACKS-4 GT605 .W5

Hats, Hair, Accessories

Hats : a history of fashion in headwear
Amphlett, Hilda
1974
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT2110 .A55

Corson, Richard.
Fashions in hair; the first five thousand years
HUNT STACKS-4 GT2290 .C6 1971

Lester, Katherine Morris and Bess Oerke; drawings by Helen Westermann
An illustrated history of those frills and
furbelows of fashion which have come to be known as: accessories of dress
1940
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT2050 .L4

Wilcox, Ruth Turner, (1888-?)
The mode in hats and headdress, including hair styles, cosmetics, and jewelry
HUNT STACKS-4 GT2110 .W5 1959

Wilson, Eunice. With shoe drawings by the author; costume drawings by Gay Lloyd
A history of shoe fashions; a study of shoe design in relation to costume for shoe designers, pattern cutters, manufacturers, fashion students and dress designers, etc.
1969
HUNT STACKS-4 TS1000 .W5 1970

Clothing and Construction

Hill, Margot Hamilton [and] Peter A. Bucknell
The evolution of fashion: pattern and cut from 1066 to 1930
HUNT OVRSZQ-4 GT510 .H5 1967

Waugh, Norah.
The cut of men's clothes, 1600-1900
1964
HUNT STACKS-4 TT504 .W385 1968B

Waugh, Norah with line diagrams by Margaret Woodward
The cut of women's clothes 1600-1930.
OVRSZQ-4 TT504 .W385 1968B

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