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THE HERMIT IN LONDON; OR, SKETCHES OF ENGLISH MANNERS (3 VOLUMES)

Published by Henry Colburn And Co. in 1821

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THE HERMIT IN LONDON; OR, SKETCHES OF ENGLISH MANNERS (3 VOLUMES)

Stock no. 2134508
Circa. 1821. Hardback. Almost very good condition.

A new Edition in 3 volumes. Leather spines and corners. New binding. These items have been rebound, so have extra endpapers; a few pages are strengthened with paper tape at spine. Wear and rubbing to spines and corners. Bookplates to front pastedowns of each volume. Ink stamp to one prelim. Foxing and page browning.

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Contents

  • VOL I.
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Entering a Room
  • A Patron
  • Too late for Dinner
  • Hyde Park on a Sunday
  • On the Rage for imitating Foreign Manners
  • On Guard for the First Time
  • Time and Wedlock
  • The Fatigue of Pleasure
  • Fashion in Dress
  • The New Member of Parliament
  • Sudden Changes
  • The Waterloo Panorama
  • Female Charioteers
  • Female Gamblers
  • The Romance
  • A Conversation
  • Just returned from Colledge
  • Fashionable Advice
  • Fortune Hunters
  • A Morning Drive in a Nobleman's Curricle
  • Sitting for a Picture
  • A Visit to my friend at his Country Seat
  • Delicate Distinction
  • A Rainy Day in the Country
  • Killing Time
  • My Country Cousin
  • Giving and Receiving
  • VOL II.
  • Shopping
  • Tattersall's
  • Mistakes in Company
  • the Nabob Club
  • Not at Home
  • Learned Women and Accomplished Women
  • An Exquisites Diary
  • A Belle's Diary
  • Gallomania
  • Fancy Balls
  • Confidence in Servants
  • Electioneering
  • Irresistibility of Manners
  • The Waltz
  • Counterfeits
  • Looking for Lodgings
  • New Inmates
  • A mysterious character
  • Distinctions in Dress
  • Lady Repulse, Lady Defiance and Lady Endeavour
  • Maternity
  • Assignations
  • The Hoax
  • the Drill Sergeant
  • Courtesy
  • Sunday Men
  • The Fair Sex
  • Such is the World
  • The Boarding School Heroine
  • The Pedant
  • VOL III.
  • Conversation
  • Dinner Parties
  • The New School
  • Life in London
  • A Rout
  • Temper
  • Half pay
  • A Quality Scholar and Orator
  • An Alarmist
  • A Morning in High Life
  • Street Nuisances
  • Economy
  • Borrowing
  • Art versus Nature
  • Dangers of too Lively an Imagination
  • The Masquerade
  • Scandal
  • The Natural Child
  • Courage
  • Patchwork
  • A scene in the Drama of Life
  • Leaving Town
  • London deserted