Lot 289
Regency fashion
La belle assemblée
£250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, addressed particularly to the Ladies. London: J. Bell, 1806-11. 11 volumes in 12, 8vo (23.2 x 14.5cm), contemporary red half morocco, 11 wood-engraved title-pages, 77 engraved hand-coloured costume plates, 212 further engraved plates (mainly portraits or needlework specimens, many folding), 22 plates of engraved music, bindings rubbed, loss to base of a few spines, lacking at least the plan of Jena in volume 1 part 1 and the wood-engraved title-page to volume 11, variable damp-staining (mainly to engraved portraits), a few stains and tears, a few plates with stab-holes visible in margins, volume 1 part 1 with marginal tear to May frontispiece, volume 3 coloured plate facing p. 161 with closed tear, quire G loose, volume 5 plate facing p. 10 with hole, facing p. 240 with short tear, volume 7 with tears to the two plates facing p. 192, volume 8 colour plate facing p. 120 with extensive closed transverse tear, volume 9 January frontispiece loose and torn, pp. 43-5 loose, volume 11 sig. F2 and attached plate loose, volume 12 plates facing pp. 47 and 56 with tears, sold as a periodical, not subject to return (12)
Footnote
Provenance: The Library of Keith Schellenberg (1929-2019), British businessman, Winter Olympian and laird of Eigg.
