Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress

Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation varies widely and was kept as printed; most other inconsistencies were kept as printed. Inconsistencies in spelling retained, along with the few corrections made, are listed at the end of this text.
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Pl. 1.
By MRS. MERRIFIELD.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION ON Head Dress. By PROF. FAIRHOLT.
BOSTON: JOHN P. JEWETT AND COMPANY. CLEVELAND, OHIO: JEWETT, PROCTOR, AND WORTHINGTON. 1854.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by JOHN P. JEWETT & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts
PRESS OF GEO. C. RAND, WOOD CUT AND BOOK PRINTER, CORNHILL, BOSTON.
STEREOTYPED AT THE BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.
The fact that we derive our styles of dress from the same source as the English, and that the work of Mrs. Merrifield has been circulated among the forty thousand subscribers of the “London Art Journal,” might perhaps be deemed sufficient apology for offering it in its present form to the American public. It has received the unqualified approbation of the best publications in this country;—entire chapters having been copied into the periodicals of the day; this added to the above, and also to the high standing of the author, has induced the publishers to offer it to the great reading public of this country.