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MASON, George Henry. The Costume of China. London: Hazard & Binns for W.Miller, 1806 [watermarked 1801-1811].
2° (353 x 257mm). Parallel titles and text in French and English. 60 hand-colured stipple-engravings by Dadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary russia gilt, the covers with a neo-classical roll-tool border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with repeat pattern in gilt, by Charles Hering (with his ticket at front), (joints weak, the upper slightly split), slipcase. Provenance: M.J.Robyns (name at foot of spine, armorial bookplate); Hans Fürstenberg (armorial booklabel).
A good copy of this well-known series of plates in a Hering binding. Colas 2009; Lipperheide Le 17; cf. Abbey Travel II, 533.
2° (353 x 257mm). Parallel titles and text in French and English. 60 hand-colured stipple-engravings by Dadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton. (Occasional light spotting.) Contemporary russia gilt, the covers with a neo-classical roll-tool border, spine in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in one, the others with repeat pattern in gilt, by Charles Hering (with his ticket at front), (joints weak, the upper slightly split), slipcase. Provenance: M.J.Robyns (name at foot of spine, armorial bookplate); Hans Fürstenberg (armorial booklabel).
A good copy of this well-known series of plates in a Hering binding. Colas 2009; Lipperheide Le 17; cf. Abbey Travel II, 533.