The Life Of Beau Brummell.
£30.00
Publisher
The Navarre Society Limited 11 and 13 Southampton Row, W. C. 1.
Place
London
Date
1927
Synopsis
By captain jesse. new edition,with an introduction and twenty coloured plates. in two volumes. two thousand copies of this edition have been printed at the riverside press, edinburgh, for the navarre society.
Item Description
TWO VOLUMES. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches. Volume the First, xxiii + [i] + 309 + [1] + [1] pp. colophon; Volume the Second, xi+ [i] + 300 pp. Title pages in red and black. Bound in brown cloth, gilt, with gilt borders; enclosing small gilt block on front boards. Top edges gilt, others rough cut. Minor wear to extremities, foxing of edges and browning of flyleaves, otherwise a very good set. Signatures of first free endpapers. Illustrated by 20 colour plates, including two frontispieces. George Bryan 'Beau' Brummell (1778-1840) was a famous dandy and arbiter of fashion in Regency England. Running out of money he fled to France to escape debtor's prison and died in exile. Biography by William Jesse (1809-71).
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