Oct 18, 2016 - Sale 2425

Sale 2425 - Lot 270

Price Realized: $ 2,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
MASON, GEORGE HENRY. The Costume of China. 60 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates. [67] leaves. bound with his: The Punishments of China. 22 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates. [27] leaves. Together, 2 volumes in one, both with titles and text in English and French. Folio, 344x261 mm, contemporary red straight-grain morocco attractively gilt by Charles Meyer, with his ticket, covers decorated with wide frame filled in with pseudo-Chinese motifs, spine darkened, joints and cover corners rubbed; moderate to severe foxing on tissue guards, generally minor scattered foxing on plates and text leaves, and occasional offsetting onto plates from tissue guards or facing text pages in both works, plate 56 and accompanying text leaf in first work heavily foxed. Bookplate of W. G. Lennox. London: S. Gosnell for W. Miller, 1800; W. Bulmer and Co. for William Miller, 1801

Additional Details

first editions, with watermark dates earlier than the years of publication. Colas 2009 (calling for ad leaf not present here), 2010.