Shaw (Henry) Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages, 2 vol., first edition in book form, additional pictorial title and 93 plates, most hand-coloured engravings, a few heightened with gold or gum arabic, 2 double-page, illustrations and decorative initials, many printed in colours from woodblocks, occasional foxing but plates generally clean, contemporary half roan, t.e.g., rebacked in calf preserving part of old spines, William Pickering, 1843 § Pugin (Augustus Welby) Specimens of Gothic Architecture, 2 vol., additional colour titles, plates, original cloth, very slightly rubbed, Edinburgh, 1895, 4to (4)

⁂ The first was "Shaw's most ambitious work...showing paintings, miniatures, stained glass, furnishings, glasses, chests, vestments, gold cups, jewellery, etc. etc....hand-coloured in the most sumptuous way...It has a considerable claim to be called the most handsome book produced in the whole of the nineteenth century...". (Ruari McLean. Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, p.66)