Download or read book British Costume from Earliest Times to 1820 written by Mrs. Charles H. Ashdown and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard-to-find classic drew on primary sources — actual costumes, illuminated manuscripts, effigies, etc. — to provide authentic detailed coverage of what people wore in Britain from the early Saxon period (ca. A.D. 460) to the reign of King George III (1820). Clothing of commoners, royalty, and ecclesiastics. Indispensable for fashion historians.