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PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The Costume of Great Britain . London: for William Miller 1804. 4° (354 x 256mm). Hand-coloured etched title-vignette and 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates (title a little stained and with a few repairs at creased fore-margin, a little light spotting and offsetting, short marginal tear in plate 38). Contemporary maroon straight-grained morocco, gilt spine, gilt floral and foliate border and a blindstamped border round sides, gilt edges (head and foot of spine and corners a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION, third issue with backgrounds coloured and plates watermarked 1823. Abbey Scenery 430; Tooley 388.
PYNE, William Henry (1769-1843). The Costume of Great Britain . London: for William Miller 1804. 4° (354 x 256mm). Hand-coloured etched title-vignette and 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates (title a little stained and with a few repairs at creased fore-margin, a little light spotting and offsetting, short marginal tear in plate 38). Contemporary maroon straight-grained morocco, gilt spine, gilt floral and foliate border and a blindstamped border round sides, gilt edges (head and foot of spine and corners a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION, third issue with backgrounds coloured and plates watermarked 1823. Abbey Scenery 430; Tooley 388. With Gerhard Rohlfs Adventures in Morocco and Journeys through the Oases of Draa and Tafilet (London 1874), William Hutton An History of Birmingham. (Birmingham, 1781) and three other works in four volumes. (7)