
Late Victorians began to contemplate a bold, astonishing idea: that perhaps women might simply be free to dress… freely.
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Late Victorians began to contemplate a bold, astonishing idea: that perhaps women might simply be free to dress… freely.

WELL DONE, IT’S RARE
Assessing what is the rarest printed work by an author is not an exact science. For instance, a book might have many known copies but appears to be rare because it seldom comes up for sale. This is often the case if the present owners are institutions or collectors who have little interest in selling. We would call this scarce.
A better way to look at the question, perhaps, is to consider how many copies of a particular work actually exist?
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