Selections of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland.

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WITH SIXTY ONE HAND COLOURED AQUATINTS. Fine, first edition, 1814, in a stunning full red crushed morocco (by Bayntun-Riviere), gilt edge tooling, Spine, raised bands, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, half title, additional half title, additional vignette title, engraved dedication leaf, [6], [2] subscribers, [1], (vi-viii), [1] pl list, [1] errata, followed by 60 pls (hand coloured, unnumbered), each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, pls 6, 30, 34, & 49 are all in the first state (Abbey), original red cloth/gilt title laid down to ep, a.e.g. gilt board edges and turn-ins, blue marbled 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, & have the publisher's imprint of Colnaghi & Co., with varying dates, ranging from 1811 to 1815, water marked J Whatman 1811, text leaves watermarked J Whatman 1808 & 1811, plates . A pristine copy. (389*311 mm). (Abbey, Life, 431. Prideaux p321. Colas 2755. Bobins 723).