The costume of the hereditary states of the house of Austria, : displayed in fifty coloured engravings; with descriptions, and an introduction, / by M. Bertrand de Moleville. Translated by R.C. Dallas, Esq.
Comte Antoine-François Bertrand de Moleville (1744-1818)
Category
Books
Date
1804
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3040432
Summary
Bibliographic description
[6], xxviii, [100] p. , 50 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; fol. List of plates bound after introduction. Shelved and uniform with other contemporary works on costume. Pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "CP. HES" and "50 plates". Ephemera: typescript catalogue card loosely inserted. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full straight-grained dark blue morocco; gilt and blind rolls to form an outer border; sewn onto five recessed cords; four false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Costumes' and 'Austria'; gilt rolled corners of board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; blue ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Comte Antoine-François Bertrand de Moleville (1744-1818), author Robert Charles Dallas (Kingston, Jamaica 1754 - Sainte-Adresse 1824), translator William Ellis (London 1747 - 1810), engraver (printmaker) William Poole (fl.late 18th - early 19th century), engraver (printmaker)