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Books about Children's Clothing and Life

  • Buck, Anne. Clothes and the Child, A Handbook of Children's Dress in England 1500-1900. New York, Holmes & Meir, 1996. [ISBN   0-8419-1371-4]. This book is an updated, rewritten and enlarged edition of Children's Costume in England from the fourteenth to the end of the nineteenth Century by Phillis Cunnington & Anne Buck, 1965.
  • Ewing, Elizabeth. History of Children's Costume. London: Bibliophile, 1977, 1982.
     
  • Rose, Clare. Children's Clothes. New York: Drama Book, 1989. [ISBN 0-89676-111-8]
     
  • Cunnington, Phillis & Catherine Lucas. Charity Costumes, of children, scholars, almsfolk, pensioners. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1978. [ISBN 0-7136-1736-5] Note this book was also published in the US by other publishers.
     
  • Kevill-Davies. Yesterday's Children, the antiques and history of childcare. Woodbridge, Suffolk, England: Antique Collector's Club, 1991. [ISBN 1-85149-135X]
     
  • Brant, Sandra and Elissa Cullman. Small Folk, A Celebration of Childhood in America. New York: E.P. Dutton in assoc. with Museum of American Folk Art, 1980. [ISBN 0-525-93131-7]
     
  • Steward, James Christen. The New Child, British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood, 1730-1830. Berkley: University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive/University of California, is assoc. with University of Washington Press: 1995.  [ISBN 0-295-97481-8]
     
  • Earle, Alice Morse. Child Life in Colonial Days. Williamstown, MA: Corner House Publishers, 1989 (third printing). First printed 1899, reprinted 1975. [ISBN 0-87928-062-X]

  • Glubok, Shirley. Home and Child Life in Colonial Days. Abridged and edited from Home life in Colonial Days and Child Life in Colonial Days, by Alice Morse Earle (as described above). New York/London: Macmillan, 1969. [ISBN