OF FASHION, FROM THE TIME OF ELIZABETH TO THE EARLY PART OF AUTHORESS OF "THE ART OF NEEDLEWORK," "THE COTTON LORD," 66 LORE, WHICH WIG-CROWNED HISTORY SCORNS." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET, 1845. 58572 24. PREFACE. THE favour with which her first effort of authorship* was received, leads the writer of these volumes to hope that another work on the same principle - that of raising a superstructure of amusement on the firm basis of history and truth -may not be unwelcome to those who seek to beguile their leisure hours with something more substantial than fiction. In this hope these pages have been produced: her materials have been carefully and studiously collated, and the authoress has rejected many an ornamental allusion, and many a beguiling hypothesis, which appeared to be unsustained in history. The Art of Needlework." Edited by the Right Hon. the Countess of Wilton. Colburn, 1840. VOL. I. A 3 |