MASON, GEORGE HENRY et al. [Costumes of Various Countries.] The Costume of China. * The Punishments of China. * The Costume of the Russian Empire. * The Costume of Turkey. *The Costume of Great Britain. London: William Miller 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1804. 5 volumes. Folio. Illustrated throughout with hand-colored stipple engraved plates as follows: China: 60 plates; Punishments: 22 plates; Russian Empire: 73 plates; Great Britain: title-page and 60 plates; Turkey: 60 plates. Full crushed burgundy morocco, gilt foliate borders, spines in compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. WITH: D'OYLY, CHARLES, illustrator, and THOMAS WILLIAMSON The Costumes and Customs of Modern India. London: Edward Ormey, [1813, dated in plates]. Folio. Illustrated with 20 hand-colored plates. Full crushed burgundy morocco gilt nearly matched to the other five volumes. Provenance: Samuel James, Baron Waring (bookplate). GORGEOUS COLOR PLATE VOLUMES DISPLAYING WORLD COSTUMES, five titles from the series published by William Miller supplemented by a 6th volume on India produced by a competing house, but nonetheless complementary to the rest, and clearly enjoyed as a set by Baron Waring. In the publisher's preface to The Costume of Great Britain, Mason writes: "By presenting to the eye a series of judiciously selected and well executed pictorial representations, forming striking portraits of single subjects, accurately finished in the colours of the original, and aided by short descriptive essays, they give more pleasing and definite ideas of the external character, style of dress, and peculiarity of occupation, than can be acquired by any other method, except actual personal observations."
MASON, GEORGE HENRY et al. [Costumes of Various Countries.] The Costume of China. * The Punishments of China. * The Costume of the Russian Empire. * The Costume of Turkey. *The Costume of Great Britain. London: William Miller 1800, 1801, 1803, and 1804. 5 volumes. Folio. Illustrated throughout with hand-colored stipple engraved plates as follows: China: 60 plates; Punishments: 22 plates; Russian Empire: 73 plates; Great Britain: title-page and 60 plates; Turkey: 60 plates. Full crushed burgundy morocco, gilt foliate borders, spines in compartments lettered and decorated in gilt. WITH: D'OYLY, CHARLES, illustrator, and THOMAS WILLIAMSON The Costumes and Customs of Modern India. London: Edward Ormey, [1813, dated in plates]. Folio. Illustrated with 20 hand-colored plates. Full crushed burgundy morocco gilt nearly matched to the other five volumes. Provenance: Samuel James, Baron Waring (bookplate). GORGEOUS COLOR PLATE VOLUMES DISPLAYING WORLD COSTUMES, five titles from the series published by William Miller supplemented by a 6th volume on India produced by a competing house, but nonetheless complementary to the rest, and clearly enjoyed as a set by Baron Waring. In the publisher's preface to The Costume of Great Britain, Mason writes: "By presenting to the eye a series of judiciously selected and well executed pictorial representations, forming striking portraits of single subjects, accurately finished in the colours of the original, and aided by short descriptive essays, they give more pleasing and definite ideas of the external character, style of dress, and peculiarity of occupation, than can be acquired by any other method, except actual personal observations."
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