World.- [Costumes of the Various Countries], 7 vol., comprising: Mason (George Henry, Maj.) The Costume of China, 60 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 1800 [but later]; [?Mason (George Henry, Maj.)] The Punishments of China, 22 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 1801 [but later]; [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Costume of Turkey, hand-coloured stipple-engraved title vignette and 44 plates only (of 60, of which 13 are loosely inserted at rear), many pp. loose or working loose, 1802 [but later]; Costume (The) of the Russian Empire, 73 hand-coloured stipple-engraved plates, 1803 [but later]; De Moleville (Bertrand) The Costume of the Hereditary States of the House of Austria, 50 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 1804 [but later]; Pyne (William Henry) The Costume of Great Britain, half-title, hand-coloured aquatint title vignette and 60 plates, frontispiece and front endpapers working loose, 1808 [but later]; [Dalvimart (Octavien)] The Military Costume of Turkey, half-title, hand-coloured engraved portrait frontispiece, hand-coloured aquatint additional vignette title and 29 plates, T. M'Lean, 1818, several with text in French and English, ex-library copies with bookplates and small ink stamp to titles, offsetting and surface soiling, scattered spotting or foxing and some browning, cracking at hinges to a few vol., attractively bound in uniform contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco, stamped in gilt and blind, small library label to foot of spines, rubbing and some wear to joints and extremities, g.e., all but the last for William Miller, folio.

*** An attractive series of costume books, all exhibiting watermarks: the final volume alone matches the printed date, while the remaining volumes bear later watermarks than the printed titles.