FINDENS TABLEAUX - 2vols: Findens Tableaux. A Series of Thirteen Scenes of National Character Beauty and Costume. From Paintings, by Various Artists, after sketches by W. Perring, edited by mrs. C. Hall, London: Published by Charles Tilt, 1837. Folio, frontispiece (Naples), (viii.), 56 pp. of text, 12 additional tissue-guarded plates. A scarce, beautifully illustrated work, demonstrating national dress of a variety of locations. With depictions of Naples, Albania, Switzerland, Poland, Spain, Arabia, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Africa, Persia and France. COMPLETE, with all 13 full-page steel engraved plates by Holl, Finden, Lewis, Artlett, Wagstaff, Egleton and Woolnoth, after paintings by a variety of well known artists. Publishers original cloth binding (full green morocco), impressively decorated in blind & gilt. Rubbed edges, spine internally cracked on both boards. All page edges gilt, yellow waxed end papers. Foxing, occasional light scattered spots. G Findens Tableaux of the Affections; A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues. From Paintings by W. Perring, Edited by Mary Russell Mitford, Published by Charles Tilt, London, 1839. Folio, frontispiece (The Coronation), (vi.), 60 pp. of text, 11 additional tissue-guarded plates. Includes works of Elizabeth Barrett, M. R. Mitford, J. R. Chorley, H. F. Chorley, John Hughes, John Kenyon, Frances A. Osgood, Richard E. Townsend and Amelia Opie. COMPLETE with all 12 full-page steel engravings. Full green morocco publisher’s binding, decorated in blind & gilt, binding with bright gilt, some rubbing, hinges fine. All page edges gilt, yellow waxed end papers. Foxing, generally light. VG