THE AGE OF ELEGANCE, 1812 - 1822

 Arthur Bryant

World Books

Crown 8to, 439 pages, rep 1954

The third volume of the trilogy which Arthur Bryant devoted to the England that beat the French Revolution and Napoleon. This covers Regency England, a wonderful rich plum-pudding of a subject. It is the England of Wellington and Castlereagh, Scott and Byron and the Lake Poets; of George Stephenson and Humphry Davy, of Cobbett and Robert Owen. An England bursting with vitality and creativeness – getting forward with the Industrial Revolution at home while successfully fighting the French Revolution abroad.

The dust jacket is a little faded and scruffy and has a little shelf wear. There is a 3cm vertical split to the jacket at the base of the spine/rear cover. There is a neat owner’s signature in ink at the top of the fep. The endpapers contain a map of the Europe of the period. The book is in good condition, the pages are clean and well bound.