Mason, George Henry
The Costume of China
£756
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Illustrated by Sixty Engravings: with Explanations in English and French. London: for W. Miller, by S. Gosnell, 1800. First edition, large 4to (33.4 x 25cm), 20th-century quarter calf, [134] pp., 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates, tissue-guards, text comprising title-pages in English and French, preface and table of contents, and descriptive text-leaf to each plate (with English and French text on either side), text-leaves occasionally watermarked ‘E & P’ with no date, English title-page soiled [cf. Abbey Travel 533 for a later edition]
Footnote
The Costume of China was the first in Miller's series of six costume books, also including The Punishments of China (1801), The Costume of Turkey (1802), etc.