WHARTON, GRACE & PHILIP. Wits & Beaux of Society. London: 1890

2 volumes. Uniformly bound in green morocco, covers tooled with elaborate gilt floral pattern, 2 miniature ivory portraits of 18th and 19th century gentlemen on upper and lower covers (lower miniature apparently cracked), miniature portraits of George Villiers and of an early 18th-century gentleman on upper and lower covers of volume 2, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt.

2 volumes. Uniformly bound in green morocco, covers tooled with elaborate gilt floral pattern, 2 miniature ivory portraits of 18th and 19th Century gentlemen on upper and lower covers (lower miniature apparently cracked), miniature portraits of George Villiers and of an early 18th-century gentleman on upper and lower covers of volume 2, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt. Toning to edge of end papers. Pencil inscription on end papers. Bound by Riviere & Sons.
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