Fully tooled and blind-stamped brown morocco. Spine with raised bands blind-stamped design between panels and gilt title. All edges are gilt. Marbled endpapers. New and Revised Edition. Quarto. iv 408pp Index. Twenty-one hand-coloured full-page plates with tissue guards. Binding lightly rubbed at edges with corners bumped. Joints tight. Contents with front hinge cracked and holding firm. Occasional offsetting minor foxing and marginal smudging. Plates with margins toned and with some smudging. The plate of "Lady Catherine Duer" with above-average marginal soiling. This copy of a rather common title is most unusual with its coloured plates, which are virtually unknown. Coloured plates in order: 1. Frontispiece. Mrs. George Washington (Martha Dandridge). 2. Lady Catherine Duer (Lady Catherine Alexander, Daughter of Lord Stirling). 3. Mrs. Alexander Hamilton (Elizabeth Schuyler). 4. Mrs. James Madison (Dolly Payne). 5. Mrs. William S. Smith (Abigail Adams). 6. Mrs. John Jay. (Sarah Livingston). 7. Mrs. Rufus King (Mary Alsop). 8. Mrs. Ralph Izard (Alice de Lancey). 9. Mrs. James Beekman (Jane Ketaltas). 10. Mrs. John Adams (Abigail Smith). 11. Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis (Sally Foster). 12. Mrs. Richard Caton (Polly Carroll). 13. Mrs. Thomas M. Randolph (Martha Jefferson). 14. Mrs. Henry Philips (Sophia Chew). 15. Mrs. William Bingham (Anne Willing). 16. Mrs. Theodore Sedwick (Pamela Dwight). 17. Mademoiselle Genet (Cornelia Clinton). 18. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis (Eleanor Custis). 19. The Marchioness D'Yrujo (Sally McLean). 20. Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich (Mary Ann Wolcott). 21. Mrs. Charles Carroll, Jun (Harriet Chew).