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Book Condition: Used
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc.

United States
About Item: London: Pub....by N. Heideloff, 1794. The First Two Volumes of "the Most Splendid of English Costume Books" "A Very Difficult Book to Find in Good Condition" The Copy of Maria Christina, Queen of Spain [HEIDELOFF, Nikolaus Wilhelm von, publisher]. Gallery of Fashion. Vol. I, April 1794-March 1796. [London]: Pub....by N. Heideloff, 1794-1796. First edition of volumes 1 & 2. Quarto (11 1/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 284 x 222 mm.). [2] Advertisement, [48], [3] List of Subscribers, [1] blank; [2] Advertisement, [48], [2] List of Subscribers. Two hand-colored engraved title-pages and forty-nine hand-colored aquatint plates depicting ninety figures of fashionably dressed ladies. Each plate with descriptive text. Spectacularly bound c. 1835 in red straight-grain morocco, unsigned, yet to all appearances the work of the firm of Charles Hering, "the artistic successor to Roger Payne, the doyen of English bookbinders" (Marks). With a broad and boldly gilt tooled frame with corner devices enclosing a gilt panel… Read More
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