1815 Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands : Meyrick/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

By Samuel Rush Meryick and Charles Hamilton Smith

William Bulmer and Co, London, 1815. First Edition. Full calf leather binding. Large 4to (42 x 33 cm / 16,5 x 13 inches). Marble page edges. Marble endpapers with inner cloth joints, Engraved coloured title page as well as a letterpress title page. Complete with all 25 colour plates, including the colour title page/frontispiece. Includes illustrations of ancient Britons, druids, fisherman, and more. With 59 pages of text.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith (26 December 1776, East Flanders, Belgium –21 September 1859, Plymouth) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy.

CONDITION
A very good copy. The leather binding is good but has had a repair to the top of the spine (see images). Endpapers good. With two bookplates to the front inside board (David Wilson Bogie Advocate Sheriff in Aberdeen and Hugh W. Young of Burghead, known for his work titled "Notes on further excavations at Burghead," published in 1893. He contributed to the understanding of archaeological findings in that area). All contents present and pages and plates are all in good clean condition and free from foxing, stains etc . . perhaps the odd light thumb marks to the margins. Overall a very good complete copy.