SEDLEY, Charles. The Faro Table
SEDLEY, Charles. The Faro Table, or The Gambling Mothers. London: Nash and Grayson. 1931. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s cream quarter buckram over marbled paper-covered boards, faded red topstain, other edges untrimmed, in the scarce deco dust jacket by I. Brooke.
Originally published in 1808 in two volumes, the book, purportedly written by a baronet described by Pepys as ‘the lewdest fellow of the age’, is an ‘invariably acid’ gossip column that holds back little. Beverley Nichols’ introduction is delightful, and the original publisher’s postscript about physical assault he encountered on its original publication—the book had insulted the attacker’s mother—is golden.
A very good copy, the boards rubbed along edges, the title segment at the spine a trifle wrinkled but the binding tight and square without cracks, the contents fine but for some offsetting to endpapers. The scarce dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) and complete, with several closed tears, some light rubbing and shallow nicks, the white segments somewhat grubby, but uncommon in the jacket.
SEDLEY, Charles. The Faro Table, or The Gambling Mothers. London: Nash and Grayson. 1931. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s cream quarter buckram over marbled paper-covered boards, faded red topstain, other edges untrimmed, in the scarce deco dust jacket by I. Brooke.
Originally published in 1808 in two volumes, the book, purportedly written by a baronet described by Pepys as ‘the lewdest fellow of the age’, is an ‘invariably acid’ gossip column that holds back little. Beverley Nichols’ introduction is delightful, and the original publisher’s postscript about physical assault he encountered on its original publication—the book had insulted the attacker’s mother—is golden.
A very good copy, the boards rubbed along edges, the title segment at the spine a trifle wrinkled but the binding tight and square without cracks, the contents fine but for some offsetting to endpapers. The scarce dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) and complete, with several closed tears, some light rubbing and shallow nicks, the white segments somewhat grubby, but uncommon in the jacket.
SEDLEY, Charles. The Faro Table, or The Gambling Mothers. London: Nash and Grayson. 1931. 8vo. First edition thus. Publisher’s cream quarter buckram over marbled paper-covered boards, faded red topstain, other edges untrimmed, in the scarce deco dust jacket by I. Brooke.
Originally published in 1808 in two volumes, the book, purportedly written by a baronet described by Pepys as ‘the lewdest fellow of the age’, is an ‘invariably acid’ gossip column that holds back little. Beverley Nichols’ introduction is delightful, and the original publisher’s postscript about physical assault he encountered on its original publication—the book had insulted the attacker’s mother—is golden.
A very good copy, the boards rubbed along edges, the title segment at the spine a trifle wrinkled but the binding tight and square without cracks, the contents fine but for some offsetting to endpapers. The scarce dust jacket unclipped (7/6 net) and complete, with several closed tears, some light rubbing and shallow nicks, the white segments somewhat grubby, but uncommon in the jacket.