Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831
Title:
Costume of the ancients / by Thomas Hope.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for William Miller ... by W. Bulmer and Co., 1809.
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GT545 .H67 1809+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Also published under the title: Costumes of the Greeks and Romans.

Engravings by Henry Moses and Richard Roffe; after Thomas Hope.

Issued the same year in an octavo one-volume edition.--Cf. BM.

British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition), v. 12, 664

Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 1478

Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany). Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), Ba19

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), v. 3, p. 303

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in gilt-tooled diced calf. Armorial bookplate: S.M. Barrett.
Subject Terms:
Clothing and dress -- Greece. | Clothing and dress -- Rome. | Miller, William -- Publisher. | Bulmer, W. -- Printer. | Barrett, S. M. -- Bookplate. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1809.
Form/Genre:
Armorial Bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Moses, Henry, 1782?-1870, engraver. | Roffe, Richard, engraver. | Hope, Thomas, 1770?-1831, ill.