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.
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
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