The Antiquarian Repertory: A Miscellaneous Assemblage of Topography, History, Biography, Customs, and Manners; Intended To Illustrate And Preserve Several Valuable Remains Of Old Times by Grose, Francis & Thomas Astle (Compilers) - 1809

London: Faulder And Son, et al., 1809. New Edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full calf rebacked. Very good. 4 vols.. 29 x 23 cm, 235 plates some double-paged or folding, one hand-colored. Originally published 1775, this edition published several years after Grose's death, contains new material, and the continuity was adjusted "in the order of the tracts, as connect them better, both in subject matter and in their order of time." A potpourri of valuable remains with related later 19th and 20th century prints laid-in. Cover border panels in gilt and blind, and with geometrical gilt tooled star design framing blind devices, modern spine labels in maroon and black morocco lettered in gilt, armorial bookplates, marbled endpapers, scattered light text foxing, plates clean, extremity scuffing. A clean, firm set.