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The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1912)

Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · London, The Times Book Club · leaf 234

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iving actors, but the ideaof puppet-shows is very much more ancient than this. The clothes of Punch were plain, and illustrations made in1630 are similar to others made a hundred years later (seeFigures 149 and 150). Originally, also. Punch does not seem to have had a long nose. The exaggerated… … THE COSTUME OF PUPPETS 191 cannot be directly traced, but Mr, Heppel has made an interest-ing suggestion that in the name of this character is to be foundthat of Giangurgolo in a contracted form. As may have been surmised, we got our Punch and Judy byway of France, but as a human actor Punch…

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