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487 - The Costume of the Netherlands, illustrated with thirty color engravings based on drawings from life by Miss Semple; with descriptions in English and French. London: Ackermann’s Repository of Arts [early 19th c.]. Folio; engraved title page and 30 plates (some light marginal soiling). Contemporary straight-grained morocco, richly decorated boards and spine with raised bands, as originally bound (slightly rubbed). First edition of this superb illustrated book, featuring a hand-colored vignette on the title page and 30 hand-colored aquatint engravings by William Bartlett based on drawings by Miss Semple. The plates are accompanied by descriptions in English and French and depict figures in traditional attire from the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Friesland), Belgium (Mons, Antwerp), and Northern France (Valenciennes). Ref. Lipperheide 958. - Colas 2710 (mentions a half-title). - Landwehr, Dutch Books with Colored Plates, no. 431. - Not in Abbey. Formerly in the collection of C. Mackenzie, a gift from her dear brother Sir Harry Neven Lumsden (handwritten entry).
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The Costume of the Netherlands, illustrated with thirty color engravings based on drawings from life by Miss Semple; with descriptions in English and French. London: Ackermann’s Repository of Arts [early 19th c.]. Folio; engraved title page and 30 plates (some light marginal soiling). Contemporary straight-grained morocco, richly decorated boards and spine with raised bands, as originally bound (slightly rubbed). First edition of this superb illustrated book, featuring a hand-colored vignette on the title page and 30 hand-colored aquatint engravings by William Bartlett based on drawings by Miss Semple. The plates are accompanied by descriptions in English and French and depict figures in traditional attire from the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Friesland), Belgium (Mons, Antwerp), and Northern France (Valenciennes). Ref. Lipperheide 958. - Colas 2710 (mentions a half-title). - Landwehr, Dutch Books with Colored Plates, no. 431. - Not in Abbey. Formerly in the collection of C. Mackenzie, a gift from her dear brother Sir Harry Neven Lumsden (handwritten entry).
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