THE WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY
Philadelphia, Chicago, Toronto: The John C. Winston Co., [1900]. Hardcover. This lively collection profiles George Villiers, Count Grammont, Lord Rochester, Beau Fielding, William Congreve, Beau Nash, Lord Hervey, Philip Dormer Stanhope, The Abbe Scarron, Francois Duc de la Rochefoucault, The Duc de Saint-Simon, Horace Walpole, and other leading British aristocrats. Octavo, two volumes: 395, [1, blank] pp. + 396 pp. with the frontispieces and 18 full-page plates, all photogravures with red-printed captioned tissue guards, by Gebbie & Husson Co. The title pages are printed in red and black. In the publisher's red flat-weave cloth bindings, with gilt-stamped ruled and floral ornamental borders, and central vignette of three feathers and ribbon on the front panel; and gilt-stamped ruled and floral ornamental head and tail bands, and titling on the spine. Top edge gilt, with a red silk ribbon. In the uncommon red diagonal fine-ribbed buckram dust jackets with gilt-stamped titling. The dust jackets are lightly toned along the spines; else near fine. Housed in the matching publisher's slipcase. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Fine / Near fine. Item #79068
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