Nature's Engraver
Nature's Engraver

Author: Jenny Uglow

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0226823911

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In this superb biography, Uglow tells the story of the farmers son who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild--a journey to the beginning of a lasting obsession with the natural world.

AGE OF SCANDAL
AGE OF SCANDAL

Author: Terence Hanbury White

Publisher: Alien Ebooks

Published: 1950-07-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1667623818

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The Age of Scandal focuses on the period in late 18th-century England following the Age of Reason—a period characterized by dilettantism, material comfort & eccentricity. Based on writings by Horace Walpole & other literate recorders, White has constructed a “little scrapbook of a nostalgic Tory.” He describes the eccentricities of the 18th-century Royal Family, the fashions of the nobility—the powdering of wigs, eating, drinking, medicine, birthday parties, theater & pronunciation; attitudes toward religion & sport; and above all, the outrageous gossip circulating in literary circles.