[FINE BINDING] THE BOOK OF COSTUME OR ANNALS OF FASHION 1847

[EGERTON, Mary Margaret Stanley, Countess of Wilton (1801-1858)]. The Book of Costume: or, Annals of Fashion, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. London: H. Colburn, 1847.

New edition. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Octavo (225 x 145 x 45 mm.), pp. xii, 482. English text. Exquisite contemporary full salmon morocco, unsigned but clearly produced by a premiere bindery, with intricate gilt ruled and tooled covers, edges and inner dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard and decorative title-page. Illustrated with upwards of two hundred engravings on wood, by the most eminent artists, some folding. Ribbon markers. Printed by George Barclay. Provenance: Ex-libris bookplate of Jack Benn Cohen to front pastedown. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, hinges intact, minor handling. Contents immaculate.