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