Vols. III, IV, and part of vol.V only in one vol., quarto (11.5" x 9") 2 pp. list of subscribers at the end of vol.III and 1 p. at the end of vol.IV. There are three hand-coloured aquatint titles, 60 hand-coloured costume plates, some heightened with gold or silver. (Occasional spotting, the first title, and first plate lightly creased). Contemporary tree calf (worn). The spine has been professionally repaired. A selection from the "most splendid of English costume books, and the first real venture in this country of a periodical devoted to the changing taste in dress" (Abbey). Volumes III and IV are complete, with title, text, and plates to vol.V from April to September 1798 (i.e., 12 of 24 plates, with the required text ). "A Gallery of Fashion is a work long wanted, and long wished for, and now makes its appearance upon a very extensive plan. The Publisher will make it his particular study to select those magnificent dresses, in which the Ladies appear at the routs, the opera, the play-houses, and the concert-rooms; as well as those elegant morning dresses for Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. Several Ladies of rank and fashion have not only approved this plan, but they have at the same time granted permission to the Publisher to make drawings of their new dresses and to insert them in this Gallery; thus, the credit of the invention of the different dresses, will be secured to those Fair Subscribers who contribute to the embellishment of this work (if they have no objection to their names being mentioned). And they will find the Publisher always ready to represent their dresses in that style of elegance, and that original taste, which is so peculiar to the British Ladies. This Gallery will not only be interesting to Ladies of the highest fashion but must be deemed necessary to every person concerned with the fashions of the day. It is likewise submitted to the admirers of the fine arts, as an agreeable series of objects, for the imitation of those Ladies who wish to mix entertainment with improvement." (Advertisement, at the front of vol.I) Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. Gallery of Fashion. Vol III. 1796. April. 2. Morning Dress (Fig 91). 3. Evening Dresses (Figs 92-93). May. 4. Evening Dresses for the Opera and Concerts (Figs 96-97-98). 5. Morning Dresses (Figs 94-95). June. 6. Morning Dresses (Figs 99-100). 7. Opera Dresses (Figs 101-192-103). July. 8. Morning Dress (Fig 104) & Afternoon Dress (Fig 105). 9. Court Dress (Fig 106). August. 10. Morning Dresses (Figs 107-108-109). 11. Afternoon Dress (Fig 110). September. 12. Morning Dresses (Figs 111-112). 13. Ranelagh (Fig 113). October. 14. Morning Dresses (Figs 114-115). 15. Evening Dresses (Figs 116-117). November. 16. Morning Dresses (Figs 118-119). 17. Afternoon Dress (Fig 120). December. 18. Morning Dress (Fig 121). 19. Half Mourning Dress (Fig 122) & Mourning Dress (Fig 123). January 1797. 20. Morning Dresses (Figs 124-125). 21. Afternoon Dresses (Fig 126) & Scotch Dress (Fig 127). February. 22. Mourning Dresses (Figs 128-129). 23. Court Dress (Fig 130). March. 24. Morning Mourning Dress (Fig 131). 25. Mourning Dresses (Figs 132-133). 26. Title page. Gallery of Fashion. Vol IV. 1797. [loose] April. 27. Hyde Park. Morning Dresses (Figs 134-135). 28. Concert Room. Evening Dresses. (Figs 136-137). May. 29. Hyde Park. Riding Dress (Fig 138). 30. Evening Dresses (Figs 139-140). June. 31. Morning Dresses (Figs 141-142-143). 32. Evening Dress (Fig 144). July. 33. Morning Dress (Fig 145) & Ball Dress (Fig 146). 34. Court Dress (Fig 147). August. 35. Morning Dresses (Figs 148-149). 36. Evening Dress (Fig 150). September. 37. Bathing Place. Morning Dresses (Figs 151-152). 38. Watering Place. Ball Dress (Fig 153). October. 39. Morning Dresses (Figs 154-155-156). 40. Afternoon Dress (Fig 157). November. 41. Morning Dresses (Figs 158-159). 42. Evening Dresses (Figs 160-161). December. 43. Morning Dresses (Figs 162-163). 44. Evening Dress (Fig 164). January 1798. 45. Morning Dresses (Figs 165-166). 46. Evening Dress (Fig 167). February. 47. Afternoon Dress (Fig 168) & Morning Dress (Fig 169). 48. Royal Dress (as worn at the late procession to St.Paul's) (Fig 170). March. 49. Morning Dress (Fig 171). 50. Afternoon Dresses (Figs 172-173). 51. Title page. Gallery of Fashion. Vol V. 1798. April. 52. Morning Dress (Fig 174). 53. Afternoon Dresses (Figs 175-176-177). May. 54. Morning Dresses (Figs 178-179). 55. Half Mourning Dress (Fig 180). June. 56. Morning Dresses and Half-Dresses (Figs 181-182-183). 57. Evening Dress (Fig 184). July. 58. Afternoon Dresses (Figs 185-186). 59. Court Dress (Fig 187). August. 60. Morning Dresses (Figs 188-189). 61. Afternoon Dress (Fig 190). September. 62. Morning Dresses (Figs 191-192). 63. Ball Dress (Fig 193).