Instructor Containing Diagrams Instructions Drafting by Charles Moore (1 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1894 Moore and Roscoe (New York)9 1/8 x 11 inches tall embossed green cloth hardcover, no dust jacket, gilt lettering to front cover, copiously illustrated with line drawings, 53 pp. Heavy soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers, with light stains to lower tips of front and rear covers, heavy staining to the left side of the front cover and major abrasions to the cloth spine cover at the top of the spine. Inside, moderate soiling to blank endpapers and minor, mostly marginal, soiling to a number of pages. Despite these detractions, nevertheless a nice reading/reference copy, still solidly bound, of this rare issue. ~V~ [2.0P] An early, respected American instructional text for garment tailors and cutters, setting forth the author's 'incline method' and the 'suppression method,' with numerous illustrations, particularly men's garments: three button cutaway, fly front overcoat, double breasted overcoat, single breasted vest, double breasted vest, vest for corpulent figure, full dress vest, full dress coat, trousers for normal and corpulent figures, the sleeve, the Invernes, shoulder cape, military cape.