Author: GRACE AND PHILIP WHARTON
Title: The Wits and Beaux of Society
Description: London, George Routledge & Sons. 1883, Reprint. Hardcover. Ill.: H. K. Browne and James Godwin. Book, Cloth dull; front hinge completely broken, cover attached only at rear; flyleaf, frontispiece and title page loose; rear free endpaper missing; few spots foxing etc. Pictorial red cloth with bevelled boards; cover shows three Regency beaux, with gilt lettering. 16 engraved plates, all present as called for, though not all quite in the right place. Brief lives of 18 society figures of the past. Fair/No Jacket.

Keywords: H.K. Browne and James Godwinbiography Social History Biography Antiquarian


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