Dressed to Kill, Dressed to Till
[NAPOLEONIC UNIFORMS]. The Military Costume of Europe; exhibited in a Series of Highly-Finished Military Figures, 2 volumes, 1st edition, London: T. Goddard and J. Booth, 1812-[22]. 2 vol. in one, 78 hand-colored plates. W.Y. Carman’s address label pasted over earlier bookplate, contemporary half morocco, some pages trimmed, others uncut, rubbed, hinges broken, large quarto, without the contents leaf in each volume (noted by Tooley but not Colas or Lipperheide), each plate with a page of descriptive text opposite. The late William C. Carman was a noted author and expert on British military dress and Deputy Director of the National Army Museum in London.
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