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Costume of the Netherlands, The
London: Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1817. Item #05853
With Thirty Fine Hand Colored Aquatint Plates Depicting the Costumes of The Netherlands
SEMPLE, Miss, [illustrator]. The Costume of the Netherlands, displayed in thirty coloured engravings after drawings from nature, by Miss Semple, with descriptions in English and French. London: Ackermann's Repository of Arts, March 1st 1817.
Folio. (13 7/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 352 x 257 mm.). [iv], [1]-30 pp. Hand-colored title-page vignette and thirty full-page hand-colored aquatints (including frontispiece). Plates watermarked J. Whatman 1816, text watermarked J. Whatman 1813. Occasional light marginal soiling, but still a wonderful example.
Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Neat early ink signature on front flyleaf. Small booksellers ticket of Henry Sotheran Ltd., on front paste-down.
"The following Drawings, being correct representations of the Costumes of the Netherlands, (each subject having been sketched from Nature) may be found interesting at this time when British valour has made that part of the continent familiar to the Public." (Foreword).
Bobins II, 430; Colas 2710; Hiler 793; Lipperheide 958, Prideaux 351; Not in Abbey.
Price: $2,250.00