First edition. 286pp, [14pp publisher's ad] with tissue-guarded frontispiece and further black and white plate illustrations. Gren cloth covered boards with gilt titles. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn, faded around spine, gently rounded on corners and spine ends. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A series of pen portraits and sketches - Eighteenth century Men About Town; Equisites of the Regency; Sterne's Eliza; The Demoniacs; William Beckford; Charles James Fox and others.
