TRACHTEN UND KOSTÜME

TRACHTEN UND KOSTÜME
- Miller, William and Thomas McLean
(eds.)

[Costumes of the Various Countries.] Complete series of costume and uniform works in 7 volumes. With 3 used coloured title vignettes and 355 coloured dotted and aquatint plates

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London, W. Miller & T. McLean, 1800-18. Folio. Wine red, cross-grained maroquine bindings of the period on 4 double frets, richly gilded on the spine, wide gold and blind embossed roller borders on the boards, gilt on the standing and inner edges and V-gilt

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Beautiful example of the complete series. Six of the titles, published both independently and by subscription, were already published by William Miller between 1801 and 1805. In 1812 Miller sold his business to John Murray, from whom Thomas McLean acquired the remaining copies, raw sheets and plates of the costume books around 1817. He expanded the series to include "Military Costumes of Turkey" and published the volumes with unchanged front pages. According to the watermarks on the plates, this copy is one of the first published by McLean. - Contains in detail: I. Mason, H. G. The Costume of China, W. Miller, 1800 (watermark text and plates 1802, 1811 and 1817). With 60 puncture wounds from J. Dadley to Pu Qua. Abbey Travel 533, Lipperheide Le 17. II. [Mason, H.G.?] The Punishments of China. W. Miller, 1808 (WZ text 1807, plates 1817). With 22 puncture wounds from Dadley. - Abbey Travel 532, Lipperheide Le 19. III. The Costume of Turkey. W. Miller 1802 (WZ text and plates 1811 and 1817). With title vignette and 60 stipple stitches from Dadley to O. Dalvimart. - Abbey Travel 370 - Lipperheide Lb 37. IV. [Anonymously]. The Military Costume of Turkey. McLean, 1818 (WZ text and plates 1817). With title vignette and 29 aquatintas by and after I. H. Clark as well as 1 point engraving by T.Ch. Wagenmann. - Abbey Travel 373 - Lipperheide Qp 3. V. [Alexander, W.] The Costume of the Russian Empire. London, W. Miller 1803 (WZ text 1796, plates 1817). With 73 puncture wounds from Dadley. - Abbey Travel 244 - Lipperheide Kaa 18th VIth Moleville, A. F. B. de. The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria. W. Miller, 1804 (WZ 1803 and 1811, plates 1817). With 50 aquatintas by W. Ellis and W. Polle after V.G. Kieninger. - Abbey Travel 71 - Lipperheide Ea 25. VII Pyne, W. H. The Costume of Great Britain. W. Miller, 1808 (WZ text and plates 1802, 1804 and 1817). With title vignette and 60 aquatintas by and after the author. - Abbey Life 430th - Lipperheide Gca 18th - All works except IV and VII with the text in English and French - Absolutely complete, decorative specimen without any preservation defects. Uniformly minimally browned due to the paper, in places a slight touch of the plates on the text. Gest. Exlibris of a noble library on mirrors - Collection Dr. Ronald Sneider.
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