Costume of the army of the British Empire,

£4,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Charles Smith's survey of the military uniforms of the Army of the British Empire at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fifty-four of the plates depict an individual soldier often in a military pose and the remaining six plates are of facings. First edition; folio, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, engraved dedication leaf, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I.C. Stadler after Smith, very occasional mark, lacking title, original upper wrapper to part 1 of 'Ancient Costume of England' erroneously bound in at beginning, modern red half morocco, a clean, fresh, very good copy. Bobins 391; Colas 2754; Tooley 456.

• Binding: Hardcover

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