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COSTUME -- MASON, George Henry The Costume of China . London: W. Miller, 1804 [but c. 1820; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. Text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates by J. Dadley after Pu-Quá Cantón. Abbey Travel 533; Colas 2009; cf. Lipperheide Le 17. MASON, G.H. The Punishments of China . London: W. Miller, 1804 [but c. 1820; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. Titles and text in English and French, 22 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates by Dadley. Abbey Travel 532; Lipperheide Le 19. PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The Costume of Great Britain . London: W. Miller, 1808 [but c. 1820; text watermarked Charles Wise 1818; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. Hand-coloured engraved title vignette, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Abbey Life 430; Colas 2447; Lipperheide Gca 18. DALVIMART, Octavien. The Costume of Turkey . London: W. Miller, 1804 [but c. 1820; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. English and French titles, preface and plate list in both languages. Hand-coloured engraved vignette on English title, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dalvimart. Abbey Travel 370; Colas 782; Lipperheide Lb 73. WAGEMAN, Thomas Charles (1787-1863). The Military Costume of Turkey . London: T. McLean, 1818 [but c. 1820; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. Hand-coloured etched title vignette and 30 hand-coloured aquatints plates by and after Wageman and I. H. Clark. Abbey Travel 373; Colas 2059. The Costume of the Russian Empire . London: W. Miller, 1804. [but c. 1820; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. Titles in English and French, text in both languages. 73 hand-coloured stipple engraved plates by Dadley. Abbey Travel 246; Colas 704; Lipperheide Kaa 18. MOLEVILLE, Antoine François Bertrand de. The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria . London: W. Miller, 1804 [but c. 1820; plates watermarked J. Whatman 1819]. Titles and text in English and French. 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by William Ellis and William Poole Abbey Travel 71; Colas 2121. Together 7 volumes, 2° (358 x 256mm). (Some light offsetting to plates, offsetting to text, some marginal soiling and occasional spotting, affecting the Punishments of China more than other volumes, the Military Costume of Turkey with one text leaf detached). Uniformly bound in contemporary straight-grained red morocco, wide roll-tool borders in gilt and blind, gilt spines, gilt edges (extremities rubbed, corners bumped, some scuff marks to covers). AN ELEGANT SERIES ON EUROPEAN AND ASIATIC COSTUME, in most cases first published by William Miller but reprinted by Thomas McLean c. 1820, without any alteration to the title-pages. Miller's series of six costume books came out in the opening decade of the 19th century, The Costume of China being the first to appear in 1800. Although he brought out the first English edition of The Costume of Austria , this was based on Kininger's edition (Vienna, 1803). McLean added one of his own books to Miller's oeuvre , the Military Costume of Turkey , first printed in 1818. (7)