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MILLER, WILLIAM:
The Costume Of The Russian Empire,
Illustrated By A Series Of
Seventy-Three Engravings.
With Descriptions In English And French.
London, Printed For William Miller, by Howlett and Brimmer, 1803 1st edition
Tall hardback, approx 14.5 x 10.5 inches.
In full maroon morocco leather fine binding.
With decorative gilt and blind embossed paneled decorations to boards.
Raised banding and gilt decorations and lettering to spine.
All page edges gilt.
Light brown endpapers.
In very good condition.
Rubbing to edges of cover, corners slightly bumped.
A couple of thin surface chips to leather on bottom corner.
Vertical rubbed mark to front board.
Endpapers clean, a couple of minor spots to prelims, no inscriptions or marks.
Plates not tissue guarded, so some offsetting to adjacent pages, including title page front frontis plate.
Some minor handling marks to pages, with one or to very minor occasional spots.
Plates all very clean and bright, with bright neat colouring.
A very good clean and tight copy.
Exquisitely illustrated.
73 Full-page hand-coloured engraved plates, each with accompanying text page description (English one side, French on verso.)
93304
The Costume Of The Russian Empire,
Illustrated By A Series Of
Seventy-Three Engravings.
With Descriptions In English And French.
London, Printed For William Miller, by Howlett and Brimmer, 1803 1st edition
Tall hardback, approx 14.5 x 10.5 inches.
In full maroon morocco leather fine binding.
With decorative gilt and blind embossed paneled decorations to boards.
Raised banding and gilt decorations and lettering to spine.
All page edges gilt.
Light brown endpapers.
In very good condition.
Rubbing to edges of cover, corners slightly bumped.
A couple of thin surface chips to leather on bottom corner.
Vertical rubbed mark to front board.
Endpapers clean, a couple of minor spots to prelims, no inscriptions or marks.
Plates not tissue guarded, so some offsetting to adjacent pages, including title page front frontis plate.
Some minor handling marks to pages, with one or to very minor occasional spots.
Plates all very clean and bright, with bright neat colouring.
A very good clean and tight copy.
Exquisitely illustrated.
73 Full-page hand-coloured engraved plates, each with accompanying text page description (English one side, French on verso.)
93304
