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CHINA MASON (GEORGE HENRY)
The Costume of China [-Costumes de la Chine], William Miller, 1804

24 June 2015, 11:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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MASON (GEORGE HENRY) The Costume of China [-Costumes de la Chine], text in English and French, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates (watermarked "1819"), the backgrounds fully coloured in wash and pencil, faint offsetting from plates to text, contemporary gilt and blindstamped straight-grained green morocco, g.e., rubbed, spine chipped at head [Abbey Travel 533; Colas 2009; Lipperheide 1520], 4to (355 x 250mm.), William Miller, 1804

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An unusual copy of Mason's Costume of China, the plates being elaborately fleshed out with fully-coloured backgrounds. See illustration on preceding page.

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