1801. BOOK: (FASHION-ENGRAVING). [RODRIGUEZ, A.:]. GENERAL COLLECTION OF...

1801. BOOK: (FASHION-ENGRAVING). [RODRIGUEZ, A.:]. GENERAL COLLECTION OF THE TRAGES THAT ARE CURRENTLY USED IN SPAIN: STARTED IN 1801 IN MADRID, Madrid: Librerías de Castillo, 1801. 8º minor. Cover + 112 plates engraved with costumes from all over Spain + 4 plates engraved with fashionable costumes from Madrid from 1804. Extraordinary hand-coloured specimen. All the engravings drawn by R. or Rodr. who is RODRIGUEZ, and engravings by Albuerne, Marín and Váquez. It is presented in a delicate full leather binding, with three golden threads in both planes, curved ridge ribs and coloured weaves, golden cuts, edges and eyebrows, and silk guards. In both planes and in mosaic of different skins, the reproduction of one of the engravings, an extraordinary work of binding, which however is not signed. Palau 272388.