Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the English. : Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions.
William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816)
Category
Books
Date
1814
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3069083
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4] p., [50] leaves, [50] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Pencil markings on list of plates. Erased pencil note on front free endpaper: "F.E. Collated Perfect". Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 1924: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown: 'Robson & Co., 7, Hanover Street, W.1.' with red ink-stamp: 'Collated Perfect.'. Binding: Early nineteenth-century full calf; gilt fillets on spine; spine title lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Costume of England'; three recessed cords; gilt rolled corners of board edges.
Makers and roles
William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816), author William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816), artist