Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus or The severall habits of English women, from the nobilitie: to the contry woman, as they are in these times, 1640 : Advertisement. A sett of the dresses & habits of foreign ladies & women done by the same hand & about the same time, but smaller, consisting of 48 prints, very neat. Price 4s.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677.

Series:

Early English books online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--England--Pictorial works--Early works to 1800.

Costume.

England.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 unnumbered leaf, 25 leaves of plates, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates)

Other Title:

Ornatus muliebris Anglicanus

Severall habits of English women, from the nobilitie: to the contry woman, as they are in these times, 1640.

Place of Publication:

[London] : Sold by H: Overton at the White Horse without Newgate, [not before 1707]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

The title page is engraved. At foot: Wenceslaus Hollar, Bohemus, fecit Londini, a⁰: 1640.

Some plates are undated, others dated 1638-1640.

Variant: title page lacks the advertisement.

Several post-1640 states of these plates exist, each with a printseller named on the title page. The original 1640 state lacked a printseller's name. Henry Overton started in business in 1707.

Identified as STC 13599b on UMI microfilm.

Reproduction of the original in the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 601:5) s1999 miun s

Cited in:

Pennington, R. Descriptive cat. of the etched work of W. Hollar, pages 292.

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