Beauty’s Costume: A Series of Female Figures in the Dresses of All Times and Nations. Containing twelve engravings by the first artists executed under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath. With original descriptions by Leitch Ritchie, Esq., Author of “Heath’s Picturesque Annual,” &c.
London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1838. First edition. Twelve finely engraved plates of women in native national costumes, each with a leaf of descriptive text. Spine extremities lightly worn, tear along front joint, intermittent light foxing. Contemporary pencil signature. A very good, clean copy. Original dark blue cloth.....