Lot 273
Military and naval uniforms--Jones, William, and Company
Rare Books, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2008 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Illustrated regulations, standard uniforms and patterns of the army, navy, militia, volunteers, civil service, court dress &c. London: Jones & Co., [c.1886], large folio, chromolithographed advertisement leaf, 27 chromolithographed plates, 4 tinted lithographed plates and 15 lithographed outline plates by A.B. Court, with details, accoutrements and outline patterns for uniforms, one uncoloured plate repaired in margin, publisher's blue cloth gilt, [Colas 3076], slightly rubbed
Footnote
Note: Rare. An impressive folio of British military uniforms. William Jones & Co. were the leading military suppliers of uniforms, buttons, helmets, belts, caps, cap badges and swords to the British army at the height of the British empire.