A GAMBLING MAN: CHARLES II AND THE RESTORATION 1660-1670
Written by Jenny Uglow.
Stock no. 1331240
Published by Faber & Faber Limited. 1st 2009. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A portrait of Charles II and the first decade of the restoration: a time of glamour and gossip, drama and risk, faction and crisis. Black boards, gilt title to spine. B/w and colour photos. ISBN: 9780571217335. Spine and corners slightly bumped. Textblock is slightly grubby. Small mark to edge of front free-endpaper. Dustwrapper is just a little edge rubbed/creased.

ELIZABETH GASKELL: A HABIT OF STORIES
Written by Jenny Uglow.
Stock no. 1831316
Published by Faber & Faber. 1st 1993. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Biography of the author, Elizabeth Gaskell. This is the story of a woman and a writer, not a matron, who had a compulsive 'habit of stories', and 'could write anywhere, under any conditions'. And what she wrote of “political and industrial unrest, crime and illegitimacy, a tribe of Amazons making do without men in Cranford, a tragic and scandal-tinged biography of Charlotte Bront“ was far from women's proper literary sphere of domestic realism, though Gaskell explored this too in her last novel, Wives and Daughters. Green cloth boards, cream title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. xiii and 690 pages including index. ISBN: 0571151825. Light vertical reading crease to spine. Boards clean. Text block lightly browned and a small mark to lower edge. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Light page browning. Else contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed at corners, slight sunning/fading to spine, light scuffing to rear panel.

RESTORATION LONDON: EVERYDAY LIFE IN LONDON 1660-1670
Written by Liza Picard; Jenny Uglow.
Stock no. 1830950
Published by Folio Society. Fine condition.

Introduced by Jenny Uglow. Red cloth boards with gilt title to spine and a gilt blocked design to front board. Colour illustrations. Colour pictorial endpapers. Still in original shrinkwrap! Unread!