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WALKER (GEORGE) The Costume of Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.], 1814 image 1
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WALKER (GEORGE) The Costume of Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.], 1814 image 3
WALKER (GEORGE) The Costume of Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.], 1814 image 4
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WALKER (GEORGE)
The Costume of Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.], 1814

14 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£1,500 - £2,500

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WALKER (GEORGE)

The Costume of Yorkshire, FIRST EDITION, text in English and French, 41 hand-coloured aquatint plates by R. & D. Havell after G. Walker, contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt, covers with wide roll-tool gilt border, with inner blind-stamped border and corner-pieces, g.e. [Abbey Life 432; Colas 3044; Tooley 498], folio (365 x 255mm.), Longman, Hurst, Rees [etc.], 1814

Footnotes

Attractive red morocco-bound first edition of Walker's Costumes. Walker's fine plates depicting Yorkshire types include "The Collier", showing a man working at Middleton Colliery in south Leeds, with Murray and Blenkinsop's newly invented steam engine in the background, "the first English plates to show a steam engine" (Tooley). Other subjects include a horse dealer, cranberry girl, whalebone scrapers, woman spinning, stonebreakers, the alum works, leech finders, jockeys at York races, Sheffield cutler, Wensley Dale knitters, Moor guide, and several of local militias.

Provenance: William Orme Foster (1814-1899), Apley Park bookplate. Foster, an iron master and Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire from 1857-1868, purchased the Apley Park estate near Bridgnorth in 1868; by descent to the present owner.

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