SMITH, Charles Hamilton. The Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, An Improved Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848.

SMITH, Charles Hamilton. The Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland, from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, An Improved Edition. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848.

Fine, clean copy with many plates heightend in gold. Abbey Life, 431 (for first edition);

Folio (368 x 264mm). Half-title, additional hand-coloured aquatint title, 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates, very many heightened in gold, list of subscribers (letterpress title spotted, otherwise a clean copy). Red half morocco by J. Wright, gilt spine and edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Christopher Turnor (armorial bookplate, Stoke Rochford Library) – Gloucester (bookplate).