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Gallery of Fashion, London: N. Heideloff, 1798-99. Volumes V & VI only (of 9) in 1, 4° (286 x 223mm.), 2 hand-coloured engraved titles and 32 hand-coloured plates only (a few scattered light spots), contemporary half red calf (joints splitting, rubbed and scuffed), bookplate of James Oakes. Colas 1170: "Cette belle publication renferme donc 9 titres et 217 planches de modes anglaises". The 9 volumes were published from April 1794 to March 1803.
HOLLAR, Wenceslas. Theatru Mulierum sive varietas atq differentia habituum foeminei sexus and Ornatus Muliebris Anglicannus or the severall habits of English, from the nobilitie to the contry woman London, 1643 & 1640 [but L. R. Sayer, 1755]. 8°, 55 engraved plates only (a few scattered spots), later half calf (rubbed and scuffed).
With 2 volumes of Thomas Hope's Costume of the Ancients, (London, 1812). The lot sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. (4)
HOLLAR, Wenceslas. Theatru Mulierum sive varietas atq differentia habituum foeminei sexus and Ornatus Muliebris Anglicannus or the severall habits of English, from the nobilitie to the contry woman London, 1643 & 1640 [but L. R. Sayer, 1755]. 8°, 55 engraved plates only (a few scattered spots), later half calf (rubbed and scuffed).
With 2 volumes of Thomas Hope's Costume of the Ancients, (London, 1812). The lot sold as a collection of plates not subject to return. (4)
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