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BARBEY D'AUREVILLY, JULES-AMADÉE. THE ANATOMY OF DANDYISM, With Some Observations on Beau Brummell; Translated from the French of... by D.B. Wyndam Lewis: and Illustrated with Dry-Points by Hermine David.
London: Peter Davies, 1928. 8vo, xvi, 84pp, engraved title & 7 engravings. Orig. black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, very good. ¶ One of an edition of 500 numbered copies of the most significant work on dandyism, an example here of one dandy writing about another. 'D'Aurevilly laid the foundations of his literary career in France with a slender volume in praise of Brummell's dandyism. Barbey's book is the pivotal work upon which the history of the dandy tradition turns. Little that came after it cannot somehow be traced to Barbey's Du Dandyisme... Little that had come before it (the memoirs, the novels, the legends of the original Regency tradition) escaped Barbey's attention.' (Moers, The Dandy, p.256).
Offered for US$ 125.00 by: Dailey Rare Books - Book number: 2641.