MILITARY AND NAVAL UNIFORMS - JONES, WILLIAM, AND COMPANY
ILLUSTRATED REGULATIONS, STANDARD UNIFORMS AND PATTERNS OF THE ARMY, NAVY, MILITIA, VOLUNTEERS, CIVIL SERVICE, COURT DRESS &C.
£650
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
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], neatly rebacked retaining original spine
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison
Note: Rare. William Jones & Co. were the leading suppliers of military uniforms, buttons, helmets, belts, caps, badges and swords to the British army at the height of the British Empire.