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MEYRICK, Samuel Rush; Charles Hamilton Smith.

The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.


Bulmer, London 1815. First edition, folio (38 x 26.5 cm approx.), 25 hand-coloured aquatint plates including frontispiece, by R. Havell after Smith, modern green half morocco gilt, a nice clean copy.

All plates have at the bottom a small coloured engraving of an archaeological object. A fine collaboration between two great scholars. Abbey Life 427; Colas 2051.

Price: £ 1250
US Dollar Price: $ 1880
Stock Number: 66236
Image of MEYRICK, Samuel Rush; Charles Hamilton Smith. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.

Image of MEYRICK, Samuel Rush; Charles Hamilton Smith. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.

Image of MEYRICK, Samuel Rush; Charles Hamilton Smith. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.

Image of MEYRICK, Samuel Rush; Charles Hamilton Smith. The costume of the original inhabitants of the British Islands, from the earliest periods to the sixth century; to which is added, that of the Gothic nations on the western coasts of the Baltic, the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Danes.