Volume 1: 352 pages; Volume 2: 344 pages. red half-calf over marbled boards, with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, uncut, red 'Fleur des Lys' patterned endpapers. Bookplate of "F. Reddaway" to front pastedown. Hinges cracked. A lovely set in fine condition. Slight rubbing to corners. Portrait frontis. 4 woodcut and 20 aquatint plates all hand-coloured and each matched with an uncoloured proof of the plate. As noted: Eight Hundred and seventy copies of this Edition were printed for England and America with the twenty-five illustrations in duplicate, one on plate paper proofs before letters and the other on Whatman paper with titles and colored by hand. Each copy numbered as issued." This example is #142. Coloured plates in order; Volume 1. 1. Frontis. R.H.Gronow. (Portrait & facsimile signature) 2. The First Quadrille at Almack's. Marquis of Worcester / Lady Jersey / Clanronald Macdonald / Lady Worcester. 3. Habitues of Whites. Marquis of Londonderry / Col. "Kangaroo" Cooke / Captain Gronow / Lord Allen / Count D'Orsay. 4. The Occupation of Paris 1814. English visitors in the Palais Royal. 5. Pillars of the Opera. Prince Esterhazy / Lord Fife / Ball Hughes / Lord Wilton. 6. Dandies of Other Days. Sir Lumley Sheffington / Lord Petersham. 7. Two Polite Nations. English versus French 1814. 8. Comrades in Arms. Sit Thomas Graham (Lord Lyndock) / Lord Hill / Sir Thomas Picton / Marquis of Anglesey. 9. Part of the Allies entering Paris 1814 - The Russian Contingent: Cossacks & Plunder. 10. Well Known Bond Street Loungers, 1820. The Earl of Sefton / The Duke of Devonshire / 'Poodle' Byng / Lord Manners / The Duke of Beaufort. 11. Prominent Celebrities. A Sketch in the Park, 1834. The Duke of Wellington / Mrs. Arbuthnot / Prince Talleyrand / Count D'Orsay. 12. The Emperor Napoleon I at the head of his staff. 13. The Light of Other Days. Lord Alvanley / Lord Hill / Lord Yarmouth. Volume 2. 14. Frontis. Sketch of a Ball at Almacks, 1815. Beau Brummel in deep conversation with the Duchess of Rutland / Comte de St. Antonio / Princess Esterhazy / Sir George Warrender / Count St. Aldiconde. 15. John Bull and his Family at an Ice Café. The Occupation. 16. Parisian Society. Chaussee D'Antin, 1826. 17. Play at Crockford's Club, 1843. Count D'Orsay calling a main. 18. Premieres Danseuses and their Admirers - The Green Room of the Opera House (Kings Theatre) 1822. Earl of Fife / Ball Hughes / Mademoiselle Mercandotti / Mademoiselle Noblet / Prince Von Esterhazy / Mademoiselle Hullen / Lord Petersham. 19. English visitors at the Café de Mille Colonnes. 20. A Ball at the Palace of the Elysee. Prince Napoleon President. 21. English Military Uniforms (Cavalry) 1821 & 1822. 22. Public Characters. Lord Westmoreland / Colonel Arthur Upton / Townsend (The Bow Street Runner) / Tom Raikes. 23. The Cafe Frascati in its Palmy Days. 24. The Allied Sovereigns attending a Review in Hyde Park, 1814. Duke of Wellington / King of Prussia / Prince Regent (George IV) / The Emperor of Rusia. 25. Souvenirs of the Army of Occupation in Paris, 1815. English Uniforms from a French Point of View.