In the original dustsheet. Navy cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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The age of our fathers and grandfathers was an age of easy money and of self-conscious manners, an age of immense social change when thousands made fortunes and became gentlemen and as many lost them and struggled to remain gentlemen. Military gentlemen, religious gentlemen, scandalous gentlemen, gentlemen involved in royal intrigue, in educational reform, in rebellion against the rigid morality of the early Victorians – here is a complete panorama of gentlemen at work and at play in the Victorian age. Illustrated