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[WALKER, George.] The Costume of Yorkshire. London: Bensley for Longman [and others], 1814 [but 1813].
Extra-illustrated first edition, with the famous plate showing, for the first time, a steam engine on rails, constructed two years before Stephenson's Rocket. Bound-in are 2 additional hand-coloured etchings published by Thomas Tegg in c.1815: 'A Yorkshire Mans Coat of Arms', an unflattering satire on Yorkshire men with an armorial including a fly, flea, magpie and a hanging gammon; and 'The Yor[k]shire jockey - or the material of a fox-hunters head' caricaturing a horse-dealer and customer. Abbey Life 432; Colas 3045.
Folio (373 x 265mm). Plates and text watermarked 1813, titles and text in English and French. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 plates after Walker, 2 additional hand-coloured etchings (occasional very faint amrginal finger-soiling). Later dark-green straight-grained morocco by Riviere, gilt spine and top edge, the others uncut, preserving the original 10 upper part-wrappers at end, these latter all dated 1813 (extremities lightly rubbed, original wrapper to part 10 soiled and with long repaired tear but without loss). Provenance: Gloucester (bookplate).
Extra-illustrated first edition, with the famous plate showing, for the first time, a steam engine on rails, constructed two years before Stephenson's Rocket. Bound-in are 2 additional hand-coloured etchings published by Thomas Tegg in c.1815: 'A Yorkshire Mans Coat of Arms', an unflattering satire on Yorkshire men with an armorial including a fly, flea, magpie and a hanging gammon; and 'The Yor[k]shire jockey - or the material of a fox-hunters head' caricaturing a horse-dealer and customer. Abbey Life 432; Colas 3045.
Folio (373 x 265mm). Plates and text watermarked 1813, titles and text in English and French. Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 plates after Walker, 2 additional hand-coloured etchings (occasional very faint amrginal finger-soiling). Later dark-green straight-grained morocco by Riviere, gilt spine and top edge, the others uncut, preserving the original 10 upper part-wrappers at end, these latter all dated 1813 (extremities lightly rubbed, original wrapper to part 10 soiled and with long repaired tear but without loss). Provenance: Gloucester (bookplate).
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