On Human Finery
London: The Hogarth Press, 1976. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #013623
New edition, revised and enlarged. Green and burgundy paper boards. 239 pp. [4] colour plates, 44 B&W illustrations. Light bruising to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket is price clipped, sunned to spine, age toned to flaps, lightly bumped to extremities. This, Quentin Bell's first book, is an essay on clothes, or perhaps more exactly, on human behaviour. It is in no sense a technical book and Professor Bell is not attempting to add to th already large body of scholarship devoted tot his subject; his only contributions in this field are a number of anecdotes, some of them uproariously funny. What in effect he set out to do was to ask himself and the rest of the clothed world why we wear the things we do.
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