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(Costumi – Illustrati 800) MEYRICK, Samuel Rush – HAMILTON SMITH, Charles. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, and adjacent coasts of the Baltic, including the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; accompanied with appropriate historical and descriptive illustrations. An improved edition. London, Republished by the New Proprietor, J. Dowding Bookseller, (1815).

(Costumi – Illustrati 800) MEYRICK, Samuel Rush – HAMILTON SMITH, Charles. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, and adjacent coasts of the Baltic, including the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; accompanied with appropriate historical and descriptive illustrations. An improved edition. London, Republished by the New Proprietor, J. Dowding Bookseller, (1815).

In folio (367 x 259 mm). Antiporta allegorica a colori, [4] carte, [24] acquetinte a colori interfoliate con [41] carte di testo che descrivono le tavole. Marocchino nocciola, piatti riquadrati da triplice filetto dorato, dorso a nervi con titoli nel secondo scomparto e fleurons dorati negli altri, sguardie marmorizzate, tagli dorati. Ex libris Novacco, Venezia. Cerniere spaccate, piccolo strappo all’antiporta, frontespizio arrossato, strappo al margine inferiore della pagina di testo che descrive la tavola XXIII, per il resto buona copia.

Bellissima opera dedicata agli antichi costumi della Gran Bretagna, illustrata da 24 acquetinte a colori che ritraggono primitivi nudi e tatuati, guerrieri, druidi, bardi, irlandesi con l’arpa celtica, la regina Budicca, donne britannico-romane, re, santi, ed un grande raduno a Stonehenge.