PROGRESS OF THE LADIES’ TAILOR, BY PROF. GUSTAV ADOLPHE

PROGRESS OF THE LADIES’ TAILOR, BY PROF. GUSTAV ADOLPHE
COSTUME. PROGRESS OF THE LADIES’ TAILOR, BY PROF. GUSTAV ADOLPHE, A SELF-INSTRUCTOR IN THE ART OF CUTTING, FITTING, AND MAKING UP TAILOR-MADE COSTUMES, RIDING HABITS, SKIRTS, PANTS, AND EVERY GARMENT APPERTAINING TO LADIES ATTIRE, AS NOW WORN IN PARIS AND LONDON, BY GUSTAV ADOLPHE, PRACTICAL CUTTER AND FITTER OF TWENTY YEARS’ PARIS AND LONDON EXPERIENCE. Chicago: G. Adolphe, 1885. Clothbound, large quarto (11 ½ x 9 in.), 92 pp., including 23 full-page plates of pattern drafts. The overlong subtitle accurately describes the contents, which also includes handsome lithographic illustrations, including a mounted lady in riding habit on the title page. An extremely rare and useful work, not found in TRAUTMAN, listed in SELIGMAN as 1885.1, but no copy located (1 copy subsequently found in Worldcat). Hinges loose, with edgewear to spine and boards, some chipping to the former; the first 8 pp. separated, but contents otherwise clean and very good.