£110
Fine Binding. Hope (Thomas), Costume of the Ancients, volume I only (of 2), second edition, presentation copy (pencil inscription to ffep) London: Printed for William Miller, et al., 1812, pp: xv, 49, [4], illustrated with 130 full-page plates engraved by Henry Moses, some foxed, finely bound in contemporary red crushed morocco gilt, in the Regency Grecian Revival taste, the covers scored and blocked in blind with a foliate shaped kite, within graduating blind fillets, the latter intersected with a border tooled in gilt with ancient Greek tragedy masks, acanthus and ornaments, gilt turn-ins and dentelles, rubbed, the spine sunned, all edges gilt, blue endpapers, 4to.
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