4to. 3pp. list of subscribers at the back. One hand-coloured aquatint title, 25 hand-coloured costume plates, some heightened with gold or silver. Contemporary marbled calf (worn). Volumes II of 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). Many of the excellent hand-coloured plates are heightened with touches of gold and silver and are notable for their fine backgrounds and incidental details. "A Gallery of Fashion is a work long wanted and wished for and now makes its appearance upon a very extensive plan. It is a collection of the most fashionable and elegant Dresses in vogue. This work, so necessary to point out the superior elegance of the English taste, is the first and only ever published in this country; it surpasses anything of the kind formerly published in Paris and shews at once the different fashions invented in different periods; in short, it forms a Repository of Dress. 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). Colour plates in order: 1. Title page. Gallery of Fashion. Month of April 1795 2. Fig XLVII. Lady is playing the Harp. 3. Figs XLVIII - XLIX - L. Morning Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of May 1795. 4. Figs LI - LII. Morning Dresses. 5. Figs LIII - LIV. Afternoon Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of June 1795. 6. Fig LV. Lady going out on horseback. 7. Figs LVI - LVII - LVIII. Court Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of July 1795. 8. Fig LIX. Court Dress. 9. Figs LX - LXI - LXII. Morning Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of August 1795. 10. Figs LXIII - LXIV. Morning Dresses. 11. Figs LXV - LXVI - LXVII. Ranelagh Evening Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of September 1795. 12. Fig LXVIII. Afternoon Dress. 13. Figs LXIX - LXX. Morning Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of October 1795. 14. Fig LXXI. Watering Place. Morning Dress. 15. Figs LXXII - LXXIII. Vauxhall Evening Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of November 1795. 16. Figs LXXIV - LXXV - LXXVI. Morning Dresses. 17. Fig LXXVII. Evening Dress. Gallery of Fashion. Month of December 1795. 18. Figs LXXVIII - LXXIX. Morning Dresses. 19. Fig LXXX. Afternoon Dress. Gallery of Fashion. Month of January 1796. 20. Fig LXXXI. Morning Dress. 21. Figs LXXXII - LXXXIII. Afternoon Dresses. Gallery of Fashion. Month of February 1796. 22. Figs LXXXIV - LXXXV. Afternoon Dresses. 23. Fig LXXXVI. Court Dress 24. Fig LXXXVII. Opera Dress. Gallery of Fashion. Month of March 1796. 25. Figs LXXXVIII - LXXXIX. Morning Dresses. 26. Fig XC. Evening Dress.