Netherlands - Semple (Miss, illustrator), The Costume of the...

Hammer

£160

Netherlands - Semple (Miss, illustrator), The Costume of the Netherlands, Displayed in Thirty Coloured Engravings After Drawings from Nature [...] with Descriptions in English and French, first edition, London: Ackerman's Repository of Arts, March 1st, 1817, the title-page with an aquatint vignette and further illustrated with 30 full-page aquatint plates as called for, the accompanying letterpress leaves with parallel English and French text, finely bound in contemporary Regency purple straight-grained morocco (upper-cover detached, chipped spine, rubbed and scuffed losses), the covers with a gilt roll of anthemions and leafy foliage, enclosing a similar blind roll, the seven-compartment spine lettered in the second, the remainder enclosing foliate leafy bosses, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, folio (36.5cm x 26.5cm), [Tooley 449; Not in Abbey], [1]