Landscape folio (45.5 x 28.5 cm. approx.) 24 hand-coloured steel-engraved plates each with descriptive letterpress with ads to verso (that to one plate somewhat frayed) publisher's limp black cloth letter in gilt in block to the upper board (somewhat worn). SCARCE. Beautiful groupings of subjects in costume against various ballroom backgrounds. With identical stiff solander box. Coloured plates in order: [All figures count from the left-hand side]. Volume 1. 1. (Fig 1) Costume d'Arlesienne (Fig 2) A Clown's Costume for a Gentleman 15 -20 years (Fig 3) Fancy Shepherdess Costume (Fig 4) Costume de Boulangere in the reign of Louis XV (Fig 5) Italian Costume for Young Lady (Fig 6) Page in the reign of Louis XV (Fig 7) Flower Girl in the reign of Louis XV. 2. (Fig 1) An Officer in the reign of Louis XV of France... (Fig 2) Gentleman's Evening Costume, 1856 (Fig 3) Costume, Blue Domino (Fig 4) Lady with Domino, in the reign of Henri IV of France... (Fig 5) Girl and Boy in Costumes of modern Bretons (Fig 6) Costume of a Lady in the reign of George II.... (Fig 7) Young French Officer (Fig 8) Gentleman's Venetian Costume of the Seventeenth Century. 3. (Fig 1) Gentleman's Evening Costume, 1857 (Fig 2) Gentleman's Evening Costume, 1858 (Fig 3) Pierre de Medici's (Fig 4) Queen of Spades (Fig 5) Gentleman's Venetian Costume (Fig 6) English Dress of the Eighteenth Century (Fig 7) Lady in the reign of Louis XV... 4. (Fig 1) Court Costume in the reign of Elizabeth of England... (Fig 2) Gentleman's Hungarian Costume (Fig 3) Lady's Hungarian Costume (Fig 4) Costume Italienne (Fig 5) Gentleman's Evening Costume, 1858 (Fig 6) Femme de Chambre, or Waiting Woman, in the reign of Louis XV... (Fig 7) An Oriental Chief's Costume (Fig 8) Gentleman's Evening Costume. **At the back may be seen two Breton Countrymen and a Marquis in the reign of Louis XV**. 5. (Fig 1) An African Chief. (Fig 2) Evening Costume for a Gentleman, 1859 (Fig 3) Gentleman's Venetian Costume (Fig 4) A Courtier's Costume in the reign of Louis XV... (Fig 5) Riding Costume for a Lady in the reign of Louis XV (Fig 6) Gentleman's Court Costume, in the reign of Mary of England... (Fig 7) A Young Page, in the reign of Charles IX of France... (Fig 8) A Modern Footman. 6. (Fig 1) A Court Gentleman in the reign of Charles IX of France... (Fig 2) Femme de Chambre, or Waiting Maid, in the reign of Charles I of England (Fig 3) A Chevalier in the reign of Louis XIII... (Fig 4) A Clown (Fig 5) A Lady's Court Costume (Fig 6) Gentleman's Evening Costume, 1860 (Fig 7) Grecian Costume for a Lady (Fig 8) Gentleman's Evening Costume, 1860. 7. (Fig 1) A Neopolitan Costume of the Sixteenth Century (Fig 2) A Chevalier in the reign of Elizabeth of England... (Fig 3) A Neapolitan Costume for a Lady of the Sixteenth Century (Fig 4) Gentleman's Costume, 1798 (Fig 5) Evening Costume, 1861 (Fig 6) Dutch Costume for a Lady (Fig 7) Costume, Queen Elizabeth... (Fig 8) A French Officer of Louis XV. 8. (Fig 1) Costume of Henry VIII of England... (Fig 2) Costume Polonaise (Fig 3) Evening Dress for a Gentleman, 1862 (Fig 4) lady's Grecian Costume (Fig 5) Gentleman's Costume in the reign of Henri IV of France... (Fig 6) Evening Dress, 1862 (Fig 7) A Swiss Lady's Costume (Fig 8) A Circassian Chief. Volume 2. 9. (Fig 1) Costume de Tzigane, from the piece of Strauss (Fig 2) Spanish Girl, with tambourine and castagnette (Fig 3) Toilette of the Fifteenth Century (Fig 4) Costume de Verdurette (Fig 5) Fish Girl's Costume in 'Si j'etais Roi' (Fig 6) Hungarian Costume (La Princess Arabella des Tziganes.) 10. (Fig 1) An English Gentleman, in the reign of George III... (Fig 2) Costume of Queen Elizabeth... (Fig 3) Gentleman's Evening Dress, 1863 (Fig 4) Madame Scarron, generally called 'Madame de Maintenon', second wife of Louis XIV (Fig 5) Costume of Louis XIV, of France... (Fig 6) Lady in the reign of Louis XIV... (Fig 7) Court Lady of the Sixteenth Century (Fig 8) A Greek Chief. 11. (Fig 1) A Neapolitan Brigand (Fig 2) Highland Costume (Fig 3) Spanish Girl's Costume (Fig 4) Swiss Costume for a Gentleman (Fig 5) Spanish Dancing Girl's Costume (Fig 6) Hungarian Costume for a Gentleman (Fig 7) An Indian Lady's Costume (Fig 8) Gentleman in the reign of Henri IV of France... (Fig 9) A Grecian Lady's Toilette (Fig 10) Gentleman's Evening Dress, 1864. 12. (Fig 1) A Polish Gentleman (Fig 2) Greek Costume for a Gentleman (Fig 3) Femme de Chambre, or Waiting Woman, in the reign of Louis XV... (Fig 4) Scotch Girl's Costume (Fig 5) Gentleman of the Thirteenth Century (Fig 6) Femme de Chambre, in Louis Xv's reign (Fig 7) Gentil Bernard, Costume from 'Mdlle Dejazet'; Louis XV (Fig 8) Fancy Costume for a Young Lady (Fig 9) Gentleman's Evening Toilette, 1865 (Fig 10) Henry Coiffier, Marquis of Cinq Mars, a favourite of Louis XIII, beheaded 1642. 13. (Fig 1) Mdlle Sasse, in 'L'Africaine' (Fig 2) Mdlle Schneider, in 'Barbe Bleue' (Fig 3) Evening Costume, 1868 (Fig 4) Costume of M. Faure's Child, in 'L'Africaine' (Fig 5) A Confederate's Costume (Fig 6) Ball Costume of Blue Satin, ornamented with Point d'Angleterre (Fig 7) Costume of Matelot in 'L'Africaine' (Fig 8) A Venetian Gentleman (Fig 9) Lady in Blue Domino (Fig 10) Courtier (Henri de Navarre.) 14. [No description.] 15. (Fig 1) Evening Costume, 1869 (Fig 2) A Conspirator from 'Madame Angot' (Fig 3) Costume de Faure, in 'William Tell' (Fig 4) A Bull Fighter's Costume (Fig 5) Rigolette (Costume of M. Delle-Ledie) (Fig 6) Choppart (Costume of Paulin Menier in 'Courrier de Lyon') (Fig 7) A Milkmaid's Costume in the reign of Louis XIV... (Fig 8) Costume of Mdlle Deveria in 'Les Turcs" (Fig 9) William II, King of England, surnamed 'Rufus' (Fig 10) Costume of Melingue in 'Lucrece Borgia'. 16. (Fig 1) Costume of M. Maubait, of the French Comedy, Art of Don Gomez de Silva, in 'Hernani' (Fig 2) Costume d'Incroyable, 1784 (Fig 3) Costume of Mdlle Desclauzas, in 'La Fille de Madame Angot' (Fig 4) Costume from 'La Rosiere' (Fig 5) Costume of M. Alexandre, in 'Le Courrier de Lyon' (Fig 6) A Chamber or Waiting Maid in the reign of Louis XVI... (Fig 7) Costume of M. Faure, of the National Academy of Music, in the character of Duke of Nevers in the 'Huguenots' (Fig 8) Costume from 'Le Cid', M. Mounet-Sully in the character of Rodrigue. Volume 3. 17. (Fig 1) Greek Costume for a Young Lady (Fig 2) Cornflower Costume for a Young Lady 15 to 20 years (Fig 3) Japanese Toilet for a Brunette (Fig 4) Armenian Costume (Fig 5) Japanese Prince Costume (Fig 6) Costume in the reign of Louis XVI, for a Little Boy (Fig 7) Convolvulus Costume for a Little Girl (Fig 8) Costume of Princess Byzantine. 18. (Fig 1) Fancy Oriental Costume, suitable for a Brunette (Fig 2) Folly Costume for a Young Lady 14 to 20 years (Fig 3) Costume from 'Rothomaga' at the Theatre du Chatelat. 19. [No description] 20. (Fig 1) Evening Costume for a Gentleman, 1872 (Fig 2) Swiss Costume (Fig 3) A Fairy in the Magic Lantern (Fig 4) Roger Bontemps (Fig 5) Mdlle Schneider in the 'Grande Duchesse of Gerolstein' (a Hungarian Dress) (Fig 6) Gentleman in the reign of Louis XV... (Fig 7) A Turkish Lady's Costume (Fig 8) A Courrier of the reign of Louis XV (Fig 9) Charlatan delivering a Lecture to the Young People who ought to be Married (Fig 10) Peter Simple. 21. (Fig 1) Gentleman's Evening Costume (Fig 2) Court Lady, 1810 (Fig 3) La Reine des Fous (Fig 4) Anglo-Saxon Costume (Fig 5) Page to the Queen des Fous (Fig 6) A Baron in the reign of Francois I... (Fig 7) A Young Girl of the Fourteenth Century (Fig 8) A Villager of the Fourteenth Century (Fig 9) A German Cavalier (Fig 10) Spanish Dancer (Fig 11) King of Boussa, a town of Central Africa, on the Niger, east of Timbuctoo. 22. (Fig 1) Costume of the King in 'La Favorite' (Fig 2) A Lady with Domino (Fig 3) Costume of Capoul in a 'first jour de bonheur' (Fig 4) An old Russian Nobleman in the reign of Peter the Great, 1720 (Fig 5) Costume of Milher in the character of Valentine, from 'Little Faust' (Fig 6) The Character of Minerva of the 'Boite de Pamdore' (Fig 7) Costume of Robin Suron in the 'Roi Carotte' (Fig 8) Femme de Chamber, or Waiting Maid, in the reign of Louis XIV (Fig 9) Costume of Faust from the opera (Fig 10) Mephistopheles from Faust. 23. (Fig 1) A Circassian Chief (Fig 2) An Indian Prince (Fig 3) Madame Schneider in 'La Veuve de Malabar' (Fig 4) Charles I, of France, surnamed "Charles the Great" (Fig 5) Marshal of the Camp of Louis XV (Fig 6) Shepherd in the reign of George I (Fig 7) Shepherdess in the reign of George I (Fig 8) Captain of the Dragoons, Louis XV (Fig 9) Costume of Louis XIV, surnamed "Le Grand". 24. (Fig 1) A Cavalier in the reign of Charles I of England (Fig 2) A French Fishwife (Fig 3) An English Gentleman (Fig 4) Marie Stuart (Fig 5) A Spanish Bull Fighter's Costume (Fig 6) A Gentleman of the Court of the Nineteenth Century (Fig 7) A Swiss Woman's Dress (Figs 8,9,10) Costumes of the French Revolution (time of Robespierre, 1788).