Beschreibung:

[The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria ... translated by R. C. Dallas], 1st edition in English, for William Miller by William Bulmer 1804 [i.e. 1808 or later], xxviii pp. introductory text, list of plates, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by William Poole or William Ellis after Kininger each with leaf of descriptive text in French and English, introductory text watermarked 1796 and 1802, description leaves marked 1803, plates watermarked 1804 and 1808, English title page lacking, French title page finger-soiled, light spotting and soiling to plate margins and to introductory and descriptive text leaves, faint offseting, short closed tear to decriptive leaf for plate 1, a few other trivial nicks, endpapers renewed, all edges gilt, contemporary diced russia, rebacked and recornered retaining most of original spine, blind palmette roll and gilt laurel cornerpieces to sides, large 4to (35.2 x 25.2 cm) Abbey Travel 71 (this copy with watermarks 1815-19); Lipperheide 831; Tooley 333 (noting 'late reissues with plates bearing watermark of 1820'). According to Abbey 'early copies are on paper watermarked prior to 1804, and contain an Introduction in English and French on twelve pages, later omitted'. This copy retains the Introduction and its watermarks are largely pre-publication; five plates (19, 20, 28, 32 and 37) are watermarked 1808. The plates depict the costume of the Polish Jewry and various parts of central and Eastern Europe, including Hungary, Bohemia, Moravia, Bukovina, as well as the regions of what is now Austria. (1)