[Rarebooks] fa: HENRY LUTTRELL - ADVICE TO JULIA 1820 - A Letter in Rhyme on London & "Society"

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"London! thou comprehensive word,
What joy thy streets and squares afford!"

[Henry Luttrell:] Advice to Julia. A Letter in Rhyme. London: John Murray, 1820. FIRST EDITION; small 8vo (17 cm) in early half calf and marbled boards, gilt-lettered morocco spine label; [4], 236 pp. Binding with some scuffing to the spine, light wear to the edges; front inner hinge a trifle pulled but secure, leaves with occasional light spotting, else clean and sound, firmly bound. Front paste-down with the armorial bookplate of Charles William Orde, Nunnykirk.

A sprightly epistolary satire in verse by the celebrated wit and Holland House habitué Henry Luttrell (1765-1851), the illegitimate son of the 2nd Earl of Carhampton. Lord Byron once described Luttrell as "the best sayer of good things, and the most epigrammatic conversationist I ever met." His Advice to Julia, nicknamed "Letters of a Dandy to a Dolly" by his contemporaries, contains wonderful, witty observations on London, Almack's, cravats and dress, hunting, etc. The passages on London life are held to rival Gay's Trivia and Swift's Description of a City Shower.