£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 792
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
[Volume 5 only, of 9]. London: published by N. Heideloff, at the Gallery of Fashion Office, 1798-9. First edition, 4to (30 x 24cm), contemporary marbled boards, drab paper backstrip, hand-coloured aquatint vignette title-page, 22 hand-coloured aquatint plates (of 24: lacking final 2 plates, for March 1799), the 2 plates for July 1798 misbound after August, spine worn, a little light soiling internally [Abbey Life 218]
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.
'The most splendid of English costume books, and the first real venture in this country of a periodical devoted to the changing taste in dress' (Abbey).