A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time … with Critical and Explanatory Notes by J. R. Planché.
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1842.
Price: $2,000.00
About the item
Second edition. Hand-colored engraved frontispiece to each volume and 143 hand-colored engraved plates of costumes. cxvii, [i], 117, [1]; vi, 279, [1] pp. 2 vols. 4to. Publisher’s half brown morocco and marbled boards, a.e.g. Rebacked, preserving original spines, plates fine. Bookplate of Henry H. Humphrey. Colas 2824.
Item #262717
The second edition of Strutt’s monumental work on the costume of England, first published in 1796.
