Costumes. Or a Short Sketch of the Manners, and Customs of the Principal Foreign Inhabitants of the Globe, (c. 1820)
London: R. Miller
25
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32mo. (26), 12pp. Thirteen hand-colored engravings depict an impressive, if eclectically selected, array of 19th-century 'types,' in a manner popular during the quickly rising stakes of the European colonial period....
32mo. (26), 12pp. Thirteen hand-colored engravings depict an impressive, if eclectically selected, array of 19th-century "types," in a manner popular during the quickly rising stakes of the European colonial period. Those included are Smugglers, Turkish Soldiers, Spaniards, Native Americans, Chinese Tartars, Russians, Algerines, Turks, Persians, Hungarians, Chinese, Highlanders, and Fishermen. The result is an odd confluence of the profession-oriented "Cries of London" and the nationally and ethnically arranged costume book. Descriptions appear at versos images, though lacking for the Smugglers and Fishermen. This seems not to be a lapse in the collation but merely an editorial decision to explain the "exotic" citizens and not the more familiar occupations. Concludes with publisher's advertisements. Bound in original marbled paper boards backed in black leather with gilt spine titling. Exterior moderately rubbed, interior quite clean save foxing to lower corner of initial pages. Near fine. Unrecorded.