Dr. Furnivall's edition of the Ellesmere MS. of
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales.'
Boutell's 'Monumental Brasses.'
MS. Harl., 1819. Metrical history of the close of
Richard II.'s reign. Good drawings for costume.
MS. Harl., 1892.
MS. Harl., 2278.
Lydgate's 'Life of St. Edmund.'
MS. Roy., 15, E. vi. Fine miniatures.
The Bedford Missal, MS. Add., 18850.
MS. Harl., 2982. A Book of Hours. Many good drawings.
MS. Harl., 4425. The Romance of the Rose. Fine and
useful drawings.
MS. Lambeth, 265.
MS. Roy., 19, C. viii.
MS. Roy., 16, F. ii.
Turberville's 'Book of Falconrie' and 'Book of Hunting.'
Shaw's 'Dresses and Decorations.'
Jusserand's 'English Novel' and 'Wayfaring Life.' Very
excellent books, full of reproductions from illuminated
books, prints, and pictures.
The Shepherd's Calendar, 1579, British Museum.
Harding's 'Historical Portraits.'
Nichols's 'Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.'
Stubbes's 'Anatomie of Abuses,' 1583.
Braun's 'Civitates orbis terrarum.'
'Vestusta Monumenta.'
Hollar's 'Ornatus Muliebris Anglicanus.'
Hollar's 'Aula Veneris.'
Pepys's Diary.
Evelyn's Diary.
Tempest's 'Cries of London.' Fifty plates.
Atkinson's 'Costumes of Great Britain.'
In addition to these, there are, of course, many other books, prints,
engravings, sets of pictures, and heaps of caricatures. The excellent
labours of the Society of Antiquaries and the Archaeological
Association have helped me enormously; these, with wills, wardrobe
accounts, 'Satires' by Hall and others, 'Anatomies of Abuses,'
broadsides, and other works on the same subject, French, German, and
English, have made my task easier than it might have been.
It was no use to spin out my list of manuscripts with the
numbers--endless numbers--of those which proved dry ground, so I have
given those only which have yielded a rich harvest.
BEAU BRUMMELL AND CLOTHES
_'A person, my dear, who will probably come and speak to
us; and if he enters into conversation, be careful to
give him a favourable impression of you, for,' and she
sunk her voice to a whisper, 'he is the celebrated Mr.
Brummell.'_--'Life of Beau Brummell,' Captain Jesse.
Those who care to make the melancholy pilgrimage may see, in the
Protestant Cemetery at Caen, the tomb of George Bryan Brummell. He
died, at the age of sixty-two, in 1840.
It is indeed a melancholy pilgrimage to view the tomb of that once
resplendent figure, to think, before the hideous grave, of the witty,
clever, foolish procession from Eton to Oriel College, Oxford; from
thence to a captaincy in the 10th Hussars, from No. 4 Chesterfield
Street to No. 13 Chapel Street, Park Lane; from Chapel Street a flight
to Calais; from Calais to Paris; and then, at last, to Caen, and the
bitter, bitter end, mumbling and mad, to die in the Bon Sauveur.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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