Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 250

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
Alexander, William (1767-1816)
The Costume of the Russian Empire.

London: Printed by W. Miller for S. Gosnell, 1803.

First edition, folio, illustrated with seventy-three hand-colored stipple engravings, text in English and French, ex libris Joseph Marryat and Roger Budin, with their bookplates pasted inside the front board, beautifully bound in full contemporary straight-grained morocco, tooled in blind and gilt, aeg, spine slightly sunned, structurally sound without repairs, marbled endleaves, very good, 14 x 10 1/4 in.