Reproductions
The following titles are contemporary reproductions of original works featuring fashion plates. In many cases, these titles also include introductions or essays that contextualize the original content, so could be utilized as secondary resources as well.
Stella Blum. Ackermann's costume plates : women's fashions in England, 1818-1828. New York : Dover Publications, c1978.
Madeleine Ginsburg. Art deco costumes by George Barbier. London : Bracken Books, c1988.
Gordon Kerr. Art deco fashion masterpieces. London : Flame Tree Publishing, 2012
JoAnne Olian. Authentic French fashions of the twenties : 413 costume designs from "L'art et la mode." New York : Dover Publications, 1990.
Anne Buck. Benjamin Read's splendid views : six topographical prints showing winter & summer fashions : taken from the hand-coloured aquatints, 1829-1839. London : Guildhall Library : Costume Society, 1984.
Frances Grimble. Bustle fashions 1885-1887: 41 patterns with fashion plates and suggestions for adaptation. San Francisco, Calif.: Lavolta Press, 2010.
Mme Cornil. Cent ans de modes françaises (1800-1900) : documents de XIXe siècle commentés et interprétés au goût du jour. Paris : R. Ducher, c1932-.
Frances Grimble. Directoire revival fashions 1888-1889 : 57 patterns with fashion plates and suggestions for adaptation.San Francisco, Calif. : Lavolta Press, 2010
Aileen Ribeiro. Dress in eighteenth-century Europe, 1715-1789. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002. [Rev. ed.]
Stella Blum. Eighteenth-century French fashion plates in full color : 64 engravings from the "Galerie des modes," 1778-1787. New York : Dover Publications, 1982.
Charles H. Gibbs-Smith. The fashionable lady in the 19th century. London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1960.
Cristina Nuzzi. Fashion in Paris : from the "Journal des dames et des modes", 1912-1913. London : Thames and Hudson, c1979.
Fashion and the art of pochoir : the golden age of illustration in Paris. April Calahan & Cassidy Zachary.New York : Thames & Hudson, 2015.
Fashions and fashion plates, 1800-1900. by James Laver. London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1943.
Fashion prints in the age of Louis XIV: interpreting the art of elegance. edited by Kathryn Norberg and Sandra L. Rosenbaum.Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech University Press, c2014.
Fourrures--portraits--miniatures.édité par Leroy & Schmid.Paris : Leroy & Schmid, [1912?]
French fashion plates in full color from the Gazette du bon ton (1912-1925) : 58 illustrations of styles by Paul Poiret, Worth, Paquin, and others /as rendered by Georges Lepape, George Barbier et al. New York : Dover Publications, 1979.
From the Ballets russes to Vogue : the art of Georges Lepape /Claude Lepape, Thierry Defert ; [translated from the French by Jane Brenton]. Georges Lepape, ou, L'élégance illustrée. English New York, NY : Vendome Press : Distributed by Viking Press, c1984.
Gallery of fashion, 1790-1822 : from plates by Heideloff and Ackermann with an introduction by Sacheverell Sitwell ; notes on the plates by Doris Langley Moore. London : B.T. Batsford, 1949.
Hand coloured fashion plates, 1770 to 1899. by Vyvyan Holland. London : B.T. Batsford, 1955.
The illustrations of George Barbier in full color. edited by François Meyer and Frederica T. Harlow. New York : Dover Publications, c1977.
Incroyables et merveilleuses. Paris, 1810-1818 /[dessins par] Horace Vernet ; texte par Roger-Armand Weigert.
Modes et manières d'aujourd'hui : quando l'illustrazione di moda diventa grande arte.
Santo Alligo ; introduzione di Giuliano Ercoli ; traduzioni di Maria Luisa Contarin Lo Bue.
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-Note: The text is in Italian but it reproduces 84 colored plates stencil of the seven volumes published from 1912 to 1922 and featuring Georges Lepape, Charles Martin, George Barbier, André Marty, Robert Bonfils, Fernand Simeon.