“Ties” (Book of Public School, University, Military & Club Ties) James Laver

"The Book of Public School Old Boys, University, Navy, Army, Air Force & Club Ties"
Introduction by James Laver CBE FRSA (1899-1975)
First Edition with Dust Jacket
Seeley Service & Co Ltd
London, 1968

Quarto, 25.5 cm high x 19 cm wide

Hardback, bound in green cloth with red spine. Original pictorial dust jackett. 96 pages. Index. Colour plates.

An good copy. Fine+ and in a good dust jacket.Slight fritting and marking to jacket, price clipped but no inscriptions.

"Will be of great value to all who are interested in ties". A work which records some 750 of the neckties associated with various leading British clubs, public school old boys, university and regimental associations. Each is illustrated with colour photographic plates with accompanying account of the date of foundation of the institution etc.

James Laver CBE FRSA (1899-1975) was a distinguished English author, critic, art historian and museum curator. He served as 'Keeper of Prints, Drawings & Paintings' at the Victoria & Albert Museum from 1938 to 1959. A pioneering historian of fashion, Laver is widely credited as having elevated the study of costume to a serious academic discipline. He has been described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable".