Origin and Early History of the Fashion Plate

by J. L. Nevinson

[37] A new Drawing book of Modes, by Mons B. Picart (printed for Richard Ware at the Bible & Sun in Amen Corner, Warwick Lane, London; no date).

[38] R. Colas, Bibliographie du costume (1933), nos. 2502, 2503.

[39] G. Paston, Social Caricature in the 18th Century (1905), pl. facing p. 10.

[40] J. Le Gros, L’Art de la coiffure (1768). James Stewart, Plocacosmos or the whole Art of Hairdressing (1782).

[41] C. L. Regnault de Savigny, Les almanachs illustrées du XVIII siècle (1909).

[42] Justus Möser of Osnabruck, a prolific writer in the 1770s, discussed, in his Patriotische Fantasien, not only national dress but whether magazines should deal with ladies’ fashions.

[43] Eva Bergman, Nationella Dräkten (Stockholm, 1938).

[44] J. C. Ryge, Ideer til en national Smag i dansk Klaederdragt (Copenhagen, 1827).

[45] Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Costume des Représentans du peuple (Paris, 1795).

[46] H. Le Blanc, The Art of Tying the Cravat, 3rd ed. (1828). The whole Art of Dress, by a Cavalry officer (1830). Both of these small books contain fashion plates.