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WALKER, George. The Costume of Yorkshire. London: Bensley for Longman [and others], 1814. 2° (349 x 252mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 plates after Walker, titles and text in English and French (occasional very light discolouration). Later 19th-century calf-backed cloth, red morocco gilt lettering-piece on upper cover (a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION, with the famous plate showing, for the first time, a steam engine on rails, constructed two years before Stephenson's Rocket. Abbey Life 432; Colas 3045.

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WALKER, George. The Costume of Yorkshire. London: Bensley for Longman [and others], 1814. 2° (349 x 252mm). Hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 plates after Walker, titles and text in English and French (occasional very light discolouration). Later 19th-century calf-backed cloth, red morocco gilt lettering-piece on upper cover (a little rubbed). FIRST EDITION, with the famous plate showing, for the first time, a steam engine on rails, constructed two years before Stephenson's Rocket. Abbey Life 432; Colas 3045.
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