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Item #32501 The Costume of Great Britain. William Henry PYNE.
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The Costume of Great Britain
The Costume of Great Britain
The Costume of Great Britain
The Costume of Great Britain
The Costume of Great Britain
The Costume of Great Britain

The Costume of Great Britain

London: Printed for William Miller ... by William Bulmer and Co., 1804 [plates watermarked 1819]. Folio. (14 x 10 inches). Hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates with partially coloured backgrounds.

Contemporary full green straight grained morocco, covers bordered in gilt and blind, spine with wide semi-raised bands in six compartments, tooled in gilt on each band, lettered in the second compartment, the other with a repeat decoration in blind, blue endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in a cloth box.

Lovely copy of the deluxe issue with partially coloured backgrounds.

The work was issued in three forms: with only the figures coloured, with the foreground immediately behind or around the figures coloured (as the present) and a rare issue with sky additionally coloured.

Abbey, Life 430; Colas 2447; Tooley 388.

Item #32501

Price: $1,500.00

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