[Rarebooks] fa: T. S. Surr - A WINTER IN LONDON or SKETCHES OF FASHION: A NOVEL - 3 vols. 1806

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T[homas] S[kinner] Surr: A Winter in London; or, Sketches of Fashion: A Novel. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1806. Third edition (same year as the first). Three volumes, small 8vo (18 cm), half navy blue calf over marbled boards. Bindings with wear to the edges, modest rubbing and wear to the extremities and joints; early/original owner's signature to the title-pages; leaves with occasional very light toning, a few small spots, but clean and sound, firmly bound. A very good example.

A satire of the Duchess of Devonshire and her set, rather uncommon in any early edition. "We understand that the keepers of circulating libraries find a great demand for this book, as some prominent characters in fashionable life are supposed to be pourtrayed in it, under the names of the Duchess of Belgrave, the Duchess of Drinkwater, Signora Belloni, Captain Neville, &c. Novel readers are generally lovers of scandal, and this production, though seasoned with nothing else, suits the palates of the old maids, and idle misses, and half masculine half feminine beaux, for whom the numerous host of modern water-gruel story-tellers find advantage in catering" (Critical Review,no. 8, July 1806).