SHAW, Henry (1800-1873). Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages. London: Pickering, 1843. 2 volumes, 4°. 93 hand-coloured engraved plates. Original vellum boards, spines elaborately gilt (vol. I bowed and split, spines discoloured), gauffered gilt edges. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Shaw's most ambitious work, described by Ruari McLean as having 'a considerable claim to be called the most handsome book created in the whole of nineteenth century' (Victorian Book Design, p.48). Ray 102.