Author: Meyrick, Samuel Rush & Smith, Charles Hamilton:

Title: The Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands.

Publication: London: printed by Howlett and Brimmer for T. M'Lean, 1821.

Description: 2nd edition. Folio, pp.59 + 25 engraved coloured plates. Toning from some plates offset onto facing pages, including title-page. Handsome modern red half morocco, gilt ruled spine with title and raised bands, marbled boards, cream endpapers. Very good indeed.

Second edition, the first having appeared in 1815, of the first work of Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, (1783-1848), English collector and scholar of arms and armour, and innovator systematic principles for the study of his subject. Meyrick worked in collaboration with the antiquary Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (1776-1859).

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Reference Number: [54910]

Price: £650

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