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Clothing and dress - Early works to 1800

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    The spinster : in defence of the woollen manufactures : to be continued occasionally, numb. I ...

    Richard Steele | Date: 1719
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    Thomas Evans, taylor, from Paris, returns thanks to the nobility, gentry, and his customers in general, and desires to inform them, that his improved trade has occasioned him to remove from his late house in Bell-Lane, into King's-Mead-Square, ..

    Evans, Thomas, taylor. | Date: [1790?]
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    An Act for imploying the manufacturers, and incouraging the consumption of raw silk and mohair yarn, by prohibiting the wearing of buttons and button-holes made of cloth, serge, or other stuffs

    Great Britain | Date: 1721]
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    A modest defence of the ladies , in answer to a scurrilous pamphlet intituled, A rod in piss for hooped-petticoats.

    | Date: Printed in the Year, 1719
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    The earl Marshal's order concerning the robes, coronets, &c. which are to be worn by the peeresses at the coronation of Their Most Sacred Majesties King George III. and Queen Charlotte

    Great Britain. Earl Marshal. | Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]
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