Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century

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With Sixty One hand coloured Aquatints. 1814, First edition, later issue, in half calf over grey cloth, some gilt tooling, edges rubbed. Spine, raised bands, gilt & blind tooling, gilt titles to red calf labels. Internally, half tittle, hand coloured frontis, [3], (vi-viii), [2] subscribers list, [1] pl list, [1] errata, followed by 60 pls (hand coloured, unnumbered), each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, text leaves watermarked J Whatman 1813, 1811 & 1808 (which is earlier than Abbey's), plates watermarked J Whatman Turkey Mill 1824, modern endpapers. Plates are hand-coloured aquatints, etched by John Augustus Atkinson with aquatint by Robert Havell, John Hill, and James Merigot; after Charles Hamilton Smith./ The plates have the publisher's imprint of Colnaghi & Co., with varying dates, ranging from 1811 to 1815, & per Tooley with 3 of the 4 redrawn plates of 1815, considered superior. (366*261 mm). (Abbey Life, 431. Colas 2755. Tooley 457)