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Lot 48

Sale 5524 - Fine Books & Ephemera
Jan 22, 2004 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$800 - 1,200
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$1,000
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2 vols.


2 vols.
(British Costume): Smith, Charles Hamilton. Selection of the Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland. London, 1814. First edition. Folio. Frontispiece + 60 hand-colored aquatint plates; occasional offsetting, occasional minor smudges. Title page & several text leaves mortised, 2 text leaves mounted. Tooley 457. * Meyrick, Samuel Rush; Smith, Charles Hamilton. The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands. London, 1815. First edition. Folio. Frontispiece + 24 hand-colored aquatint plates; some offsetting. Tooley 326. Both large paper copies, uniform full contemp. gilt & blind ornamented gilt-paneled straight grained maroon morocco, a.e.g.; occasionally rubbed. Ex-library copies, ink stamp on front paste-down, no markings on plates or text leaves.

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