The Costume of the Russian Empire = Costumes de l'Empire de Russie : Illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings : with descriptions in English and French. Second edition.
London: Printed for William Miller, Old-Bond-Street; by William Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's, 1804. Small folio. 34.8 x 26.5 cm (13¾x10½"), red straight-grain morocco with ruled gilt borders, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, all edges gilt..[xviii] pp. With 73 hand-colored stipple-engraved plates by J. Dadley. Twin title pages in French and English. Text in English and French. .... Fourth in a series of costume books published by William Miller. Plates are copied and enlarged from a book by J.C. Georgi published by W. Müller in St. Petersburg in 1776-1780 in 4 v. Text for this English edition is attributed to William A. Alexander. This new ediion of this book appeared in 1804 with Bulmer as printer, uniform with the others in the series printed or reprinted this year. A reprint of the second edition is represented by Abbey T 245. Cf. Abbey.
Added title page in French: Costumes de l'empire de Russie ...
Stipple engravings by J. Dadley.
Leaf of descriptive letterpress in English accompanies each plate with text translated into French on verso.....
Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street, Holborn.....
Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 702
Kunstbibliothek…"The Russian empire is of an extent unknown to other modern nations, and hardly equaled by that of the Romans in the summit of their power. It embraces within its limits, nations the most various, with countries and climates the most opposite ... It touches the Frozen Ocean of the north; and borders the warm climate of Persia, Japan, and China, on the south...." (Preface). Abbey Travel, 244. Ownership marks on verso of front free endpaper........
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, GT1046 .A44 1803...
OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:
1342317611:....
Text in English and French
Attributed by the British Museum Catalogue to William Alexander
Plates "Engraved by J. Dadley for W. Miller, Old Bond Street, London, January 1, 1803."
Plates "copied from a series of engravings begun at Petersburg in 1776, and finished in 1779, under the care, and at the expense of C.W. Müller, at the desire of the late Empress, " for J. G. Georgi's work: Beschreibung allwe nationen des russischen reiches. "The description to the plates have been derived from the most authentic sources, more particularly: Müller, D'Auteroche, Kracheninnikow, Plescheëf, Pallas and Saür, as well as from information procured from several gentlemen." Item #51-7266
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