Fine Books and Manuscripts

4to (291 x 228 mm). 40 hand-colored engraved plates. (Spotting and offsetting throughout, minor tears or losses to text leaves, not affecting text.) Contemporary half brown morocco, spine in 6 compartments with 5 raised bands, gilt, edges gilt (rubbing to extremities). Second edition which includes an insight into the rural and domestic recreations, may-games, mummeries, pageants, processions and pompous spectacles from the earliest period until the 18th- and 19th-centuries.