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English costume (1907)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 316

An illustration from English costume, 1907, leaf 316
e cape is but a quickand quiet step. By now necessity was satisfiedand had given birth to art. Man, having admiredhis face in the still waters of a pool, seeing how theoval framed in the hood vastly became him, sought A MAN OF THE TIME OF HENRY VI.(1422—1461) His hair is cropped over his ears and… … HENRY THE SIXTH 181 to tickle his vanity and win the approbation of theother sex, so, taking some shears, cut the edge ofhis cape in scallops and leaves. A more dandifiedfellow, distressed at the success of his brothersplumage, caused the peak of his hood to be madelong. Need one say more ? The…

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