This recent acquisition is one of the first English publications on pattern drafting, “rendered plain and easy to the meanest capacity.”
The Taylor’s Complete Guide, or, a Comprehensive Analysis of Beauty and Elegance in Dress, Containing Rules for Cutting out Garments of every kind (London: Allen and West, 15 Paternoster-Row, price 10s 6 d [1796?]). Accession number 21022, in the Beinecke’s Uncatalogued Acquisitions database.
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