Regency Culture and Society: A Bit of Bronze
Perusing the A View of London (1803), I came upon this amusing description of gentlemen acquiring town polish that I wanted to share: It continues Continue
Perusing the A View of London (1803), I came upon this amusing description of gentlemen acquiring town polish that I wanted to share: It continues Continue
This ad appeared in the June 1816 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.
La Belle Assemblee, 1807 On 45 Gracechurch Street in London, Dutton’s Universal Circulating Library and booksellers operated from 1799 until sometime in the late 1820s. It was one Continue
The plate and description appeared in the 1824 Modern Furniture collection. According to the description, this was the height of deshabille fashion!