Hutton, Catherine.

8 volumes, various folio sizes (385 x 235mm. or 425 x 260mm.), over 1400 mounted engravings, woodcuts and aquatints, many delicately cut out and hand-coloured, each numbered and captioned by Hutton, some with a manuscript explanation on the facing page, contemporary russia, spines gilt, gilt edges, some offsetting, bindings somewhat worn, vol.2 broken, rebacked preserving original spines

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A remarkable collection of cut-outs from prints and books illustrating the history of costume from the medieval period to the beginning of the nineteenth century, including examples from India, China, Turkey, Spain, the Low Countries, France and elsewhere.  

Catherine Hutton (1756-1846) was the daughter (and biographer) of the historian William Hutton (1723-1815). She was a novelist, a prolific correspondent of many notable contemporaries, and a collector of autographs as well as this fine assembly of costume plates, which is referenced in her ODNB entry: "In an account of her occupations written in July 1844, Catherine Hutton described some of the other activities which absorbed her: needlework, including 'patchwork beyond all calculation' (GM, 476); pastry and confectionery; collecting prints of costumes in 8 large volumes; and collecting more than 2000 autographs".