The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century
Book Description
                        Printed by Howlett and Brimmer for T. M'Lean, Haymarket and E. Williams, Strand, London, 1821, new edition. [first published 1815],  Half leather binding with marbled boards Five raised bands to spine. Rebacked. Gilt lettering on leather patch to compartment two. Blind stamped decoration to other compartments. Small folio, 14.5ins x 10.5ins, Additional hand coloured aquatint title page, printed title page, list of plates, half title, 59pp plus 24 hand coloured plates. Each plate is marked aquatint by R. Havell after drawing by Charles Hamilton Smith, and they are dated 1815. The full printed title continues" to which is added, that of The Gothic Nations on the Western Coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes". The text pages have wide margins. Within the text there are many references to Druids and Bards. The text pages have occasional offsetting from the plates opposite. The marbled paper to board edges is chipped in places but overall a VG copy.
                    
                                            Dealer Notes
                            stock no: 51809
                        
                                    
                        Author
                        Meyrick, Samuel Rush & Smith, Charles Hamilton
                    
                    
                                        
                        Date
                        1821
                    
                    
                                        
                        Binding
                        Half Leather with marbled boards
                    
                    
                                        
                        Publisher
                        T. M'Lean
                    
                    
                                        
                        Illustrator
                        Charles Hamilton Smth
                    
                    
                                        
                        Condition
                        VG
                    
                    
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