Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Austrians. : Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings. With descriptions. / By William Alexander.
William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816)
Category
Books
Date
1829
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124616
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xv, [3] p., [50] leaves, 50 leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 4to. Uniformly bound and shelved with 'Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians', '... the Chinese', and ' … the Turks'. Additional blank leaf bound in after letterpress description of Plate 28. Provenance: Nineteenth-century anonymous armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Haverland' [i.e. Haverland, or Haveringland, Hall, Norfolk, seat of the Fellowes family (the Barons de Ramsey); coat of arms shows Fellowes quartering three others, unidentified]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half red morocco; marbled paper over boards; printed paper label on upper board: 'Costume of Austria. Fifty coloured engravings. Price, half bound, 3l. 3s. 0d.'; sewn onto five recessed cords; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Costumes' and 'Austria'.
Makers and roles
William Alexander (Maidstone 1767 -Maidstone 1816), author