The Follies & Fashions of Grandfathers Embellished with thirty-seven whole-page plates including ladies' and gentlemen's dress (hand-coloured and heightened with gold and silver), sporting and coaching scenes (hand-coloured), fanciful prints, portraits of celebrities, &c., (many from original copper-plates)

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Near Fine. With fore edge painting, & a wonderful binding, complete with 37 illustrations. In full wine calf (by Sangorski & Sutcliffe), gilt edge tooling, corners brushed. Spine, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling, gilt titles to dark green calf label, light wear along joints. Internally, frontis, [8], [2], [1], (ii-vi), [3], 4-87, [1], [4] adverts, [3], 92-366 pp, [1], [1] blank, 2 tipped in embroidered linen labels & 1 bookmark, 18 hand coloured illustrations (heightened with gold and silver), 19 other illustrations (2 folding), floral scene as a fore edge painting in gilt, bookplate to fpd (Bertha Alling Benedict), red marbled endpapers, gilt tooling & board edges & turn-ins, binders stamp to verso fep (also stating bound for J.W. ???? Company), endpapers watermarked MBM, a.e.g., introduction in red ink, published in monthly numbers, January 1807 to December 1807. (209*135 mm). Bertha Alling Benedict was possibly the husband of Edgar Ells Benedict, and mother to Nathan D. Benedict, nuclear weapons design engineer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then known as the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory.....