![SPANISH COSTUME -- Coleccion de trages de España. [Madrid: Calcografia nacional, plates dated 1832-36]. 4° (265 x 173mm), hand-coloured engraved title and 112 hand-coloured plates, no text (light spotting throughout), late 19th-century red hardgrain half morocco, gilt spine, top edges gilt (hinges a little rubbed). Provenance: Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister 1894-95 (small oval leather bookplate). Second edition of this attractive costume book issued in 14 fascicules, each containing 8 plates. These are further divided into 56 suites of two plates, each illustrating the male and female of the various regions and occupations of Spain. The first edition appeared in 1825. Palau 56689; Colas 646; Lipperheide 1224.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CSK/2005_CSK_05625_0357_000(100229).jpg?w=1)
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SPANISH COSTUME -- Coleccion de trages de España. [Madrid: Calcografia nacional, plates dated 1832-36]. 4° (265 x 173mm), hand-coloured engraved title and 112 hand-coloured plates, no text (light spotting throughout), late 19th-century red hardgrain half morocco, gilt spine, top edges gilt (hinges a little rubbed). Provenance: Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, Prime Minister 1894-95 (small oval leather bookplate). Second edition of this attractive costume book issued in 14 fascicules, each containing 8 plates. These are further divided into 56 suites of two plates, each illustrating the male and female of the various regions and occupations of Spain. The first edition appeared in 1825. Palau 56689; Colas 646; Lipperheide 1224.
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