The follies & fashions of our grandfathers (1807) : embellished with thirty-seven whole-page plates including ladies' and gentlemen's dress (hand-coloured and heightened with gold and silver), sporting and coaching scenes (hand-coloured), fanciful prints, portraits of celebrities, &c., (many from original copper-plates) / by Andrew W. Tuer ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900.

Contributor:

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, ill.

Simpkin, Marshall and Co., publisher.

Leadenhall Press, publisher.

Hamilton, Adams & Co., publisher.

Scribner & Welford, publisher.

Field & Tuer, publisher.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Costume--Great Britain.

Costume.

Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

[10], vi, 366, [2], [8] p., 37 plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Follies and fashions of our grandfathers 1807

Place of Publication:

London : Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press, E.C., Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Hamilton, Adams & Co.; New York, Scribner & Welford, 743 & 745, Broadway, 1886-1887.

Notes:

Introduction printed in red.

Published in monthly numbers.

Last [8] p. are publisher's advertisements.

"There are three editions of The follies and fashions of our grandfathers: Special copies ... , large paper copies ... , demy octavo copies, the costumes carefullytinted and heightened with gold and silver, twenty-five shillings"--P. [5] of first sequence.

An illustrated digest of the most amusing and characteristic matter contained in ... magazines more or less flourishing in the year 1807."

Illustrations: 37 full plates, engraved : 21 col., some of them hand colored. 2 folded plates not colored. One of the ills. by I.R. Cruikshank.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Binding: Gray suede over brown boards, embroidered decorative linen title labels on spine and front board; with original embroidered linen book-mark laid in; with printed cloth pastedowns.

Athenaeum copy: Dornsife/VSA.

Athenaeum copy: Flyleaf inscribed as: Uncle from Griff and Grace, Christmas, 1886.

Athenaeum copy: Library copy is one of the demy octavo copies.

OCLC:

742283