The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated to a Series of Forty Engravings.
London: Longman and Hurt, 1814. First.
Walker, George. The Costume of Yorkshire, Illustrated by a Series of Forty Engravings, Being Fac-Similes of Original Drawings. With Descriptions in English and French. London: T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814. Folio (353 x 257mm.), text in English and French. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and forty hand-colored aquatint plates by R. and D. Havell after George Walker; 96 pp. of text, incl. table of contents. Half-bound in green morocco and cloth, the spine decorated in gilt with raised bands, with marbled endpapers. Several of the plates from this work have become iconic depictions of both British Napoleonic military uniforms and common dress of the trades and laboring classes, notably those relating to the production of textiles. Perhaps the best known image is that of the steam locomotive designed by John Blenkinsop hauling coal at the Middleton colliery. [Abbey Life 432; Colas 3044; Tooley 498].
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