Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Ornatvs mvliebris Anglicanus, or, The severall habits of English women from the nobilitie to the contry woman as they are in these times, 1640.

Accession number
PML 1716
Creator
Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJh8J7DWkYx8BqtKgbP84q
Published
[London] : Sold by H. Overton at the White Horse without Newgate.
Notes
Engraved title page and 26 engraved plates, each signed by Hollar.
Some plates are undated, others dated 1638-1640; portrait subjects identified in Pennington.
"Advertisement. A Sett of Dresses & Habits of Foreign Ladies & Women done by the same Hand & about the same Time, but smaller, consisting of 48 Prints, very neat." -- below title.
Morgan copy with "48" scraped away from Advertisement.
Description
[1], 26 leaves of plates : engravings ; 23.5 cm (4to)
Provenance
Henrietta Cotesworth (1723-1781), engraved armorial bookplate (front endleaf 3 verso), and manuscript poem "The Rise of Fashion, an epistolarly tale to Miss Cotesworth" by William Mason, August 1747, on 7 leaves bound before Hollar, the entire volume (manuscript and prints) may have been a gift from Mason to Cotesworth; James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
English 19th century red morocco, gilt.
Classification
Department