the Bradley Martin copy

The scarce first edition of Yosy's classic work on the costume of Switzerland. With the distinguished provenance of the renowned book collector, H. Bradley Martin.

First edition; 2 vols in one, 8vo, half-titles, 50 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates of costumes, paper guards, 2pp. engraved musical notation, most plates very clean but light soiling to plate 16 and slight smudge to plate 20, some foxing to text, pp.73-82 and plates 29 & 30 misbound after p.100, original blind-stamped cloth, t.e.g., a little rubbed and faded, rebacked preserving original spines, new endpapers, a good, well-margined copy.

Colas 3102; Brunet V, 1509; Lipperheide 906.