JESSE, (CAPT.) - The Life of Beau Brummell. New edn. [expanded with 18 fine coloured plates].

London, Privately printed for subscrib ers, [the] Navarre Society, [..], 1927. 2 vols. Stpout 8°. Original publ. cloth, small gilded devices on front covers, gilded title on spines, top edges gilded. (x), (1), 300; (xxiii), 309pp. 2 coloured frontispieces., 18 captioned fine coloured plates illustrating male and some female extravagant fashions, footnotes, table of contents, introduction by L.H.D. Detaled survey of life and times of a man who changed the face of english men's fashion in the 18th/19th century: Beau Brummell, born as George Bryan Brummell, 1778-`840, who was the arbiter of men's fashion in Regency England an a friend of the Prince regent, the future King George IV. He established the mode of men's wearing understated, but fitted tailored clothes including dark suits and full-length trousers, adorned with an eleborately-knotted cravat. He claimed to take five hours to dress and recommended that boots be polished with champagne. His style of dress is often referred to dandyism, even though Brummell himself would have never have agreed to that description. Fine to very fine untrimmed set in original publ. cloth. (some minimal bumping to corners, some minimal wear to spine ends).

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