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The follies & fashions of our grandfathers (1807) : embellished with thirty-seven whole-page plates including ladies' and gentlemen's dress (hand-coloured and heightened with gold and silver), sporting and coaching scenes (hand-coloured), fanciful prints, portraits of celebrities, &c., (many from original copper-plates) / by Andrew W. Tuer ...

Accession number
PML 150103
Creator
Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900.
Published
London : Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, E.C., Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Hamilton, Adams & Co. ; New York, Scribner & Welford, 743 & 745, Broadway, 1886-1887.
Credit line
Bequest of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
An illustrated digest of the most amusing and characteristic matter contained in ... magazines more or less flourishing in the year 1807."
Illustrations: 37 full plates, engraved : 21 col., some of them hand colored. 2 folded plates not colored. One of the ills. by I.R. Cruikshank.
Includes index.
Introduction printed in red.
Published in monthly numbers.
Last [8] p. are publisher's advertisements.
"There are three editions of The follies and fashions of our grandfathers: Special copies ... , large paper copies ... , demy octavo copies, the costumes carefullytinted and heightened with gold and silver, twenty-five shillings"--P. [5] of first sequence.
Description
[10], vi, 366, [2], [8] p., 37 plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original seude 3/4 binding.
Classification
Department