The Prince of Pleasure and his Regency 1811-20 by J.B. Priestley
Published 1971: First Sphere Books Edition / Softcover / Good Condition / Illustrated throughout
Pictorial stiff card covers. 304 bright and clean pages, previous owners details on the title page. Slight shelf wear on the covers, speckled end-papers and edges.
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The Regency Period is perhaps the most romantic of British history. It was an age which swung between extremes of elegance and refinement, and depths of sodden brutality. The central figure is the Prince Regent, Prinny, and though he sometimes appears as a gigantic spoilt child, he was famously good company and a notable patron of the arts. The author portrays the personalities of the giants of the romantic age - Byron, Shelley, Sheridan, Wordsworth, Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott; Davy Faraday and Macadam; Turner, Constable and Cotman - to name a few. It was an age of extravagance; an age marked by great eccentricities and prodigous jokes; the luddite riots; the Battles of Waterloo and Peterloo; the first waltzes and the first locomotives.
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