SHAW, HENRY Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: William Pickering, 1843.2 vols. 4to, rebound in 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First edition. With 94 chromolithographed or hand-colored plates. McLean called this "the most handsome book produced in the whole nineteenth-century." Scattered light foxing.