The author has created a portrait of Ashbee, a man who happily supported his unsuspecting wife and four children, but spent his spare time cataloguing such risque titles as "Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving" and "The Marchioness' Amorous Pastimes". The work includes access to Ashbee's diaries.
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The author has created a portrait of Ashbee, a man who happily supported his unsuspecting wife and four children, but spent his spare time cataloguing such risque titles as "Miss Bellasis Birched for Thieving" and "The Marchioness' Amorous Pastimes". The work includes access to Ashbee's diaries.
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Fair. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket; foxing to edges of pages; sunning to spine; a large repaired tear on the front of the dustjacket but remaining intact.; Cover artwork may differ;
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. M5-DJ has wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, light crease on the back inside flap, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book has remainder mark on the bottom, wrinkling on the spine edges and gutter edges, some rubbing on the bottom cover edge, some stains on the page edges, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. First Da Capo Press edition 2001. With his celebrated touch for evoking both his subject and his subject's era, Gibson has created a telling and provocative portrait of a fascinating character and the no less intriguing age that made his possible.