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COSTUME [A collection of seven works]. London 1804-20 [but c.1820]:7 volumes, 2° (357 x 260mm). Uniform contemporary blue straight-grained morocco, covers elaborately panelled in gilt and blind, spines in six compartments with false raised bands, lettered in the second and fifth, the others with elaborate repeat decoration of massed small tools, gilt turn-ins, gilt edges (Some discolouration and scuffing to extremities, front inner hinge of work on Russsia split). The set comprises: George Henry MASON. The Costume of China. London: 1804 [but c.1820]. Titles and text in French and English. 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dadley after Pu-Qùa. (Occasional light offsetting of text onto plates.) Abbey Travel 533; [George Henry MASON. The Punishments of China. London: 1804 [but c. 1820]. Titles and text in French and English. 22 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dadley. Abbey Travel 532; [Octavien DALVIMART]. The Costume of Turkey. London: 1804 [but c.1820]. Titles and text in French and English. Hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates by Dadley and others after Dalvimart, extra-illustrated with an additional variant English title before the addition of the engraved vignette. (Occasional light offsetting of text onto plates.) Abbey Travel 370; [?William ALEXANDER]. The Costume of the Russian Empire. London: 1804 [but c.1820]. Titles and text in French and English. 73 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates. Abbey Travel 245; Antoine François BERTRAND DE MOLEVILLE. The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria. London: 1804 [but c.1820]. Titles and text in French and English. 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates by William Ellis or William Poole (Occasional light offsetting of text onto plates.) Abbey Travel 71; William Henry PYNE The Costume of Great Britain. London: 1808 [but c.1820]. Hand-coloured engraved title vignette, 60 aquatint plates with both the main figures and backgrounds hand-coloured, by and after Pyne. Abbey Life 430; Thomas M'LEAN (publisher). The Military Costume of Turkey. London: M'Lean, [no date but c.1820]. Engraved additional title printed in bistre with hand-coloured aquatint vignette, hand-coloured stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece, 29 hand-coloured aquatint plates by J.H. Clark. (Occasional light offsetting of text onto plates.) Abbey Travel 373. A fine series, in a contemporary binding (one of the endpapers is dated 1818), as issued by M'Lean. In about 1818, M'Lean had purchased the unsold stock of Miller's works from Murray and initially offered them with the first edition of his own work ( The Military Costume of Turkey . When stocks ran out 'It seems reasonable to assume.. that in about 1820.. M'Lean reprinted Miller's series [the first six works above], and his own book': Abbey Travel II, p.486. (7)