Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1

Alice Morse Earle

BiblioBazaar, 2009 - Design - 348 pages

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

About the author

ALICE MORSE EARLE (1851-1911) was a popular writer of the Colonial Revival movement. She was the author of seventeen books, many of them about daily life in early America, especially in New England. Thanks to her meticulous research and the timelessness of her writing, a number of these books are still in print. VIRGINIA LOPEZ BEGG is a landscape historian and designer, and author of numerous articles about the role of women in shaping the American landscape, particularly through the garden literature of the 1860-1940 period.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1
• Author: Alice Morse Earle
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: BiblioBazaar, 2009
• ISBN: 0559135033, 9780559135033
• Length: 348 pages
• Subjects: Design / Textile & Costume; History / General; History / United States / General