Costumes of the Ancients. By Thomas Hope. London: Printed for William Miller, 1809.
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Provenance:
Bookplate of Thomas Spring Rice, the 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon, PC, FRS, FGS (1790-1866), of Mount Trenchard House. Thomas was a British Whig Politician most known for his role as the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1835-1839). Outside of his political career, Thomas held the position of the commissioner of the state paper office, was a trustee of the National Galley, was a member of the senate of the University of London and of the Queen's University of Ireland, and was the President of the Royal Statistical Society.
Mount Trenchard House is located in Ireland, Foynes, County Limerick, it is a stately home. The first house to be build on the estate was build by Francis Trenchard who received the estate in 1612 from James I by charter. The Current Mount Trenchard House was built in the 1770s by the Rice family in the Gregorian style.
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Size: 151 x 241 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[(3), t.p., v-xi, 54pp., 200 plates, (3)].
Full brown calf binding with gilt title in a compartment to the spine between raised bands, other compartments with simple decorative gilt. Binding with very minor rubbing and scuffing, and with some sunning to edges. Both boards attached with rubbing along joints, front joint and hinge cracked, and rear joint starting, thus front board if fragile. Shelf and edge wear. Marbled page edges somewhat dulled. Attacked bookplate to front pastedown. Text block very clean with light edge toning and occasional foxing. Most plates are numbered, some plate numbers have been trimmed away, the plates are numbered between 1 and 200. Tailcap mostly detached. Small loss of the backstrip from the bottom of the spine.
