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English costume (1906)

Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 92

An illustration from English costume, 1906, leaf 92
82, Sophia of Brunswick. THE MEN AND WOMEN We cannot do betterthan open Thackeray,and put a finger on thispassage: There is the LionsHead, down whose jaws^* ^^ the Spectators own let- ters were passed; andover a great bankers inFleet Street the effigy ofthe wallet, which the founder of the firm… … GEORGE THE FIRST 43 before him ; or Mrs. Dinah in her sack, tripping tochapel, her footboy carrying her ladyships gieatprayer - book ; with itinerant tradesmen, singingtheir hundred cries (I remember forty years ago, asa boy in London city, a score of cheery, familiarcries that are silent now).…

Costume -- Great Britain

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