The Costume of Yorkshire

[1][2] George Walker was born in 1781 near Leeds, the youngest of five brothers; his father William was a drysalter and a member of the Mill Hill Chapel.

Instead of following his father's trade, he studied natural history and fine art, often making sketches of wildlife, people and landscapes.

[1][3] The book contains an unnumbered frontispiece and 40 coloured and numbered engravings, including such famous[1] pictures as those of Yorkshire cloth-dressers, making oatcakes, a woman spinning, and a collier.

The text with each plate is in both French and English, an unusual feature[3] given that the two countries had been at war for much of the period.

[1][3] The print of the Middleton collier has been used as an image of the English working class at its inception in the Industrial Revolution.