Book Details
| Author: | Nadal, E.S.: |
| Title: | Impressions of London Social Life - With Other Papers Suggested by an English Residence. |
| Published: | London: Macmillan & Co., 1875. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 01 - Literature |
| Description: | First edition. x, 223 pp. Preface - "This volume of Essays records the impressions received during a residence in London, where the Author was for some eighteen months a secretary of legation. It also describes things as they appear to one who returns to this country after a stay in London - New York: January, 1875". Contents: Impressions of London Social Life, English Sundays and London Churches, Two Visits to Oxford, The British Upper Class in Fiction, Presumption, English Court Festivities, English Tradition and the English Future, Childhood and English Tradition, The Dancing School in Tavistock Square, Contrasts of Scenery, New York and London Winters, The Evening Call, Our Latest Notions on Republics, English Conservative Temper, English and American Newspaper-Writing, Americans Abroad, Society in New York and Fiction. Text clean and bright throughout. Binding tight and sound. Bound in half leather with purple cloth boards. Five raised bands on spine with gilt decoration. Gilt lettering on red spine label. Leather on edge of spine scored in places. Surface of leather corners scored. Corners rubbed. Overall condition VG-. |
| Book Number: | #3730 |
| Price: | € 60.00 |
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