ALEXANDER (William). Picturesque representations of the dres - Lot 38

ALEXANDER (William). Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings with descriptions. London, Thomas M'Lean, [plates by John Murray, 1814]. In-8, [2] f. (title, list of plates), plates, late 19th c. garnet half-chagrin with corners, 5-rib spine, gilt author, title, place and fleurons, double gilt fillet bordering the boards, gilt head, spine rebacked (spine browned, mottling on spine and boards, 3 corners worn; sporadic light mottling in foot margins; 1 plate lacking). New edition reproducing the 1808 original in a smaller format. The work comprises 50 engraved and colored plates (here 49), including a frontispiece and a title, each accompanied by a commentary leaf. Missing pl. 8 and corresponding text leaf. Provenance: William M. Scott (etiq. bookplate); Anne & Herbert Simms (etiq. bookplate).