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COSTUME -- [?W. ALEXANDER (1767-1816).] The Costume of the Russian Empire . London: 'S. Gosnell and Howlett and Brimmer' for 'W. Miller' [but T. M'Lean], '1803' [but text watermarked 1811, plates 1829]. Text in English and French. Hand-coloured line- and stipple-engraved frontispiece and 72 plates by J. Dadley (Neatly-repaired marginal tear on one plate.) Abbey Travel 244 (1803); Colas 702 (1803); Lipperheide Kaa18 (1803). [?W. ALEXANDER]. The Costume of Turkey . London: 'Howlett and Brimmer' for 'William Miller' [but T. M'Lean], '1804' [but plates watermarked 1828-30]. Text in English and French. Hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette by R. Jones after Octavien Dalvimart, hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece and 59 plates by Dadley and W. Poole after Dalvimart, some heightened with gold. (?Lacking letterpress title, one prefatory leaf misbound, no French text to plate XVI.) Abbey Travel 370 (1804-19); Colas 782 (1802); Lipperheide Lb37 (1802). [ANON.] The Military Costume of Turkey . London: 'W. Bulmer and Co.' for 'W. Miller' [additional title: Thomas M * cLean], '1818' [but text watermarked 1829, plates 1830]. Hand-coloured aquatint additional title heightened in gold by and after I.H. Clark, hand-coloured line- and stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece by and after Thomas Charles Wageman, 29 hand-coloured aquatint plates by and after I.H. Clark, some heightened in gold or gum arabic. (Frontispiece trimmed at foot.) Abbey Travel 373 (1818-1820); Colas 2059 (1818). George Henry MASON. The Costume of China . London: 'S. Gosnell' for 'W. Miller' [but T. M'Lean], '1800' [but text watermarked 1821, plates 1829]. Text in English and French. Hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece and 59 plates by Dadley after Pu Qua. (One plate with unobtrusive marginal tear.) Abbey Travel 533 (1804-20); Colas 2009 (1800); Lipperheide Le17 (1800). [?George Henry MASON.] The Punishments of China . London: 'W. Bulmer and Co.' for 'William Miller' [but T. M'Lean], '1801' [but plates watermarked 1811; final advertisement leaf dated 1821]. Text in English and French. Hand-coloured stipple-engraved frontispiece and 22 plates by Dadley. Abbey Travel 532 (1804-1819); Colas 2010 (1801); Lipperheide Le19 (1808). Antoine François Bertrand de MOLEVILLE. The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria... Translated by R.C. Dallas. London: 'William Bulmer and Co.' for 'William Miller' [but T. M'Lean], [n.d.; plates dated 1804; text watermarked 1811, plates 1829-30]. Text in English and French, introductions on pp.[v]-xxvii. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 49 plates by W. Ellis and W. Poole after V.G. Kininger. (Small marginal flaw in French title, English title detached.) Abbey Travel 71 (1804-19, noting that 'early copies [...] contain an Introduction in English and French on twelve pages, later omitted'); Colas 2112 (1804); Lipperheide Ea25 (1804). 6 volumes, 4° (approx. 350 x 260mm). (Scattered light spotting or marking, light offsetting, generally from plates onto text.) Uniformly bound in contemporary straight-grained maroon morocco, sides with borders of gilt and blind floral and palmette rolls, flat spines gilt in compartments, lettered in two and at the foot, the other compartments decorated with foliate tools, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (extremities a little rubbed and scuffed, occasional scuffing on covers). AN ATTRACTIVE SET OF THE MILLER/M'LEAN COSTUME BOOKS, IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING. These six titles were originally part of the series of seven costume books published by William Miller between 1801 and 1805. In 1812 Miller's business was purchased by John Murray who sold the remaining copies, sheets and plates of the costume books to Thomas M'Lean in about 1818, and M'Lean reissued the works over the following years, often with unamended title pages. M'Lean's 1821 advertisement in this copy of The Punishments of China lists Miller's seven titles, but also an additional four titles, some (e.g. Bradfor