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Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London.: Printed For William Miller, Albemarle Street, By S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street.. 1808, but after 1817.. 22 hand coloured stipple engravings by J. Dadley, title-pages in English and French, 50 text pp. Bound in contemporary gilt decorated black morocco, re-backed preserving parts of the original spine, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, new endpapers, some extensive offsetting to the text block from the plates, but although the plates have some faint spotting they are generally unaffected. Still a good firm copy. 35.5 x 25.5cm. In keeping with all other copies of this work we have handled watermarks on the text leaves and plates show differing dates. In this copy thirteen leaves are watermarked: the French titlepage together with another leaf Edmeads & Pine 1804; 6 leaves watermarked E&P 1807; 2 leaves Turkey Mills J Whatman 1817 and 3 watermarked J Whatman 1817. Attributed to the artist George Henry Mason - a British army officer who traveled to Canton in 1789, making drawings of the costumes… Read More

London: William Miller, 1808. hardcover. near fine. J. Dadley. Illustrated with 22 handsomely printed color engravings by the accomplished stipple engraver John Dadley, purportedly after originals by one Pu-Qua of Canton, acquired by the author, William Henry Mason, a major in the Royal Madras Fusiliers, while visiting the country around 1790. Slim folio, 3/4 contemporary burgundy levant with ornately gilt spine; (rubbed at extremes but sound and attractive). London: William Miller for S. Gosnell, 1808. An early printing, likely the third, with pages watermarked 1804 & 1807. Ownership name on blue endpapers and with foxing on blank flyleaves, still a near fine copy with remarkably clean text and plates.<br/> <br/> Text attributed to G.H. Mason> Plates by J. Dadley: A culprit before a Magistrate; A Culprit conveyed to Prison; A Culprit conducted to Trial; An Offender undergoing the Bastinade; Twisting a Man's Ears; Punishment of the Swing; Punishing a Boatman; Punishing an… Read More

London: Old Bond-Street: William Miller, 1801. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good +. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. MASON George Henry. VG, 1st ed, 1801, 22 coloured pls. In contemporary red straight grain morocco, decorative gilt edge tooling, corners & edges rubbed. Spine, lightly worn, raised bands, decorative gilt tooling & titles, edges worn. Internally, 2 title leaves (1 in English the other French), 1 ff contents, 2 ff prefaces, followed by 22 hand coloured stipple engraved plates, a few with the undated E&P watermark, some finger marks to pl margins, each pl with a leaf of descriptive text in both English & French, a.e.g., gilt tooling to board edges & turn-ins, blue marbled endpapers, bookplate & library label to fpd, printed W. Bulmer and Co, of Cleveland-Row, St James's and engraved by J Dadley . (256*347 mm). (Colas 2010-12. Prideaux 317). Mason's text is based on his own experiences in Canton in 1789-1790. At the time he was there, foreigners… Read More

London: William Miller, 1804. Reprint of 1804 second edition, plates watermarked 1819. 22 hand-colored aquatints after Pu-Qua with accompanying text leaves in English and French. Folio. Full contemporary green morocoo, gilt, a.e.g., rubbed, head of spine damaged. Ex-library with shelfmarks, bookplate, and perforated stamps. Accompanying watercolors very good, removed from album, some cropped and matted, some light creasing, waterstaining affecting one image. Reprint of 1804 second edition, plates watermarked 1819. 22 hand-colored aquatints after Pu-Qua with accompanying text leaves in English and French. Folio. With 23 Original Watercolors. With a fine set of 23 original watercolors by Chinese artists for export to Europe, illustrating the various "Punishments of China." The accompanying watercolors are captioned in a later hand, indicating that they were used for the plates in Punishments. Though they closely resemble the illustrations in Punishments, it is unlikely that these were the very models… Read More

London: William Miller, [& Edward Orme for Modern India],, 1800; 1801; 1803; 1804; 1804; c.1824 [but each with 1820s watermarks]. A fine set of these superb colour plate books "A most important series of books on costume" (Hardie, p. 151), this a particularly choice set - presented here in stylish period morocco bindings - of these famous colour plate books, issued by two of the most fashionable publishers of the era, William Miller and Edward Orme. The Costume of China has plates by the accomplished stipple engraver John Dadley, purportedly after originals by one Pu-Qua of Canton, acquired by the author, William Henry Mason, a major in the Royal Madras Fusiliers, while visiting the country around 1790. Many different trades and occupations are illustrated here. Dadley was also responsible for the plates in the pendant work, the celebrated and gruesome Punishments, which he nevertheless renders with elegance and delicacy. The splendid volume on the Russian Empire are also by Dadley and are based on… Read More

London: William Miller; T. M'Lean; William Bulmer, 1800-18. 370 x 270 mm. (14 1/2 x 10 1/2"). Seven volumes.. Uniformly bound in stately contemporary dark burgundy straight-grain morocco, covers with gilt palmette-and-wheat-sheaf border, inner frame of blind-stamped grapevine, raised bands, spine compartments densely gilt with repeating botanical tools, gilt lettering, gilt-rolled turn-ins, all edges gilt. Two engraved titles with hand-colored vignettes (not included in plate count) and 356 FULL-PAGE HAND-COLORED PLATES FEATURING COSTUMES, OCCUPATIONS, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION OF VARIOUS NATIONS. Volume I-III, V, and VI with text in French as well as English. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Edward Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn. Abbey Life 430; Abbey Travel 71, 244, 370, 373, 532, 533. ◆Joints and extremities lightly rubbed, one board with a couple of faint scratches, two rear boards with neat older repairs to short tears at tail edge, but the bindings quite sound and most… Read More