CHATS ON COSTUME UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME _Fully Illustrated, and with Coloured Frontispieces. 5s. net_ CHATS ON OLD CHINA By ARTHUR HAYDEN SECOND EDITION. Revised, with many New Illustrations. "A handsome handbook that the amateur in doubt will find useful, and the china-lover will enjoy for its illustrations, and for the author's obvious love and understanding of his subject."--_St. James's Gazette._ "All lovers of china will find much entertainment in this volume."--_Daily News._ "It gives in a few pithy chapters just what the beginner wants to know about the principal varieties of English ware. We can warmly commend the book to the china collector."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE By ARTHUR HAYDEN "The hints to collectors are the best and clearest we have seen; so that altogether this is a model book of its kind."--_Athenæum._ "A useful and instructive volume."--_Spectator._ "An abundance of illustrations completes a well-written and well-constructed history."--_Daily News._ "Mr. Hayden's taste is sound and his knowledge thorough."--_Scotsman._ "Should be as indispensable to collectors and lovers of antique furniture as the author's 'Chats on Old China' is to connoisseurs of old china."--_Lady's Pictorial._ CHATS ON OLD PRINTS By ARTHUR HAYDEN (_In Preparation_) LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN [Illustration: MISS ELLEN TERRY as "LADY MACBETH," BY J. S. SARGENT, R.A. (_Reproduced by kind permission of the Artist._)] CHATS ON COSTUME BY G. WOOLLISCROFT RHEAD, R.E. AUTHOR OF "THE TREATMENT OF DRAPERY IN ART," "THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN," "A HANDBOOK OF ETCHING," "STUDIES IN PLANT FORM," ETC., ETC. WITH 117 ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING 35 LINE DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR [Illustration] LONDON T. FISHER UNWIN ADELPHI TERRACE 1906 (_All rights reserved._) PREFACE Needless to say the present work is far from exhausting the subject of costume, which extends, indeed, over the whole field of history. For reasons of space, neither ecclesiastical nor military costume is touched upon. The book makes no pretensions to being anything more than what its title suggests--a series of chats upon a subject which fills a considerable place in the minds of, at any rate, the larger half of the community. While many works germane to the subject of costume have, of necessity, been here largely drawn upon in the way of quotation, there will, at the same time, be found a certain proportion of what may be described as fresh material, the result of the author's acquaintance with the subject in his individual practice as an artist. Indeed, the subject of dress is, or should be, an artistic matter; it was so in the past, and it will again, in the very near future, come to be recognised as one of the Decorative Arts, requiring artistic knowledge, and some perception of the fundamental laws of Design.