Author: Shoberl, Frederick] editor (but not given on titlepage)
Title: DESCRIPCION ABREVIADA DEL MUNDO INGLATERRA, ESCOCIA & IRLANDA
Description: London, R. Ackermann, Strand 1828 Hand-coloured plates including costumes, professions & trades, with children, animals, coaching scene, ships/boats, boxing etc. . 2 VOLUMES gilt tan roan (edges worn/spine of vol.2 lacks top compartment and much of the raised bands of vol.2 are missing their leather covering) All edges marbled. Frontispiece + xc (which incl.titlepage) +72pp Vol.2 frontispiece + v (which includes title) +140pp + [4]pp of publisher's Spanish works. Book plate to pastedown with coat of arms of Earl of Portsmouth. Text in Spanish but plates all captioned only in English and the colouring is original and well done. Both text and plates are in clean condition, no writing no tears and with the tissue guards in place and very minimal foxing to a very few pages. The publisher, Ackermann, lists these books as being sold through his own establishments in Maxico, Columbia, Buenos Aires, Chile, Peru, & Guatemala these volumes were obviously written for the South American trade.

Keywords: costume trades hand coloring


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