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[WARD, Robert Plumer]. - Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement.
London, Henry Colburn 1825. Three volumes octavo modern half calf. Frontispiece in volume one, half titles in two and three as seems right. Frontispiece browned which isn't helped by the baronial owner - his bookplate is preserved - practicing his bold signature on the back. Apart from this, a nice fresh copy. ¶ It is possible that Sir Richard Sutton, Bart, got further into the book than the frontispiece but given the evidence of the book and his history, which seems to consist largely of horse and hound, it's likely that he couldn't get through all the chat of and by Tremaine - the jaded, betrayed, fastidious man of fashion and consequence - to his redemption by the simplicity of nature and the natural simplicity of Georgina. Tremaine, the first of many things: Colburn's first novel of fashion, foundation of the Dandy and Silver Fork schools; was the first of Ward's three novels, written only after Ward had retired from a life of politics and the law and it may be that Tremaine's redemption was wish fulfillment. In 'The Dandy' Ellen Moers notes that "the major consequence of Tremaine's refinement is his inability to love, a failing which Ward (who took three wives ...) treats satirically, yet with certain sympathy. Like the occupations, the ladies are one after another rejected as insufficiently fine: one for a want of sentiment, one for an excess, one for reading Tom Jones, one for eating peas with a knife." Moers goes on to enumerate Ward's glee in eavesdropping on and adding to society gossip about his anonymous novel.
AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.75 US$ 132.1 | £UK 105.5 | JP¥ 20576] Booknumber: 9316
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AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.75 US$ 132.1 | £UK 105.5 | JP¥ 20576] Booknumber: 9316
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Total: AUD 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 122.75 US$ 132.1 | £UK 105.5 | JP¥ 20576]
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