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Condizione: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

hardcover. Condizione: Very Good++. Shelf Lives 2018. Fine/Like New and unread condition. Beautiful book. Green cloth hardcover is like new condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Fine copy in dustwrapper. Edition limited to 250 numbered copies; smartly designed by Libanus Press. The full, rackety, short life of Kenneth Mackenzie (1744-1781), first and last Earl of Seaforth in the new creation, who died of scurvy on the way to Madras with his regiment. "Poor Seaforth," wrote Joseph Banks to William Hamilton, "he went off suddenly, & was drunk when he died. It would have been extraordinary luck if he had been sober as it was for some time his custom to Keep up a regular fire of Drams day & night . . ." "The colourful adventures of an eighteenth-century playboy, inspired by clues in the paintings he commissioned," promises the publisher's blurb. "Dandy, swordsman and madcap, musician, connoisseur and lady's man, the last EARL OF SEAFORTH was Chief of the Clan Mackenzie, M.P. for Caithness and Colonel of his Highland regiment. Grandson of an attainted Jacobite, he was educated on the Grand Tour, and taken up by libertines and gamblers who gave him the nickname Gimcrack - because he was short and fast, like the winning stallion immortalised by Stubbs. As a child of the Enlightenment he climbed volcanoes with William Hamilton, entertained the boy Mozart at home in Naples, took part in a bizarre scientific experiment with Joseph Banks, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society. In hot pursuit of the freer pleasures of the age, he frequented the brothels of Covent Garden, caroused with the Dilettanti, and secretly married a fashionable courtesan made famous by Joshua Reynolds. But finding no firm purpose in life he declined into drink and debt - and a tragic death at sea, still in his thirties.".

Hard Cover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 208pp. Complete colour illustrated dustjacket. Colour illustrations. A very clean copy. The first biography of Thomas Linley, the talented violinist and composer who was the childhood friend of Mozart but who died young in an unexplained boating accident at Grimsthorpe Castle.

Hardback. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 64. Original publishers red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Signed by both authors on the title page. Limited edition of 400 copies, this being 57. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. ISBN: 099555031X Fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 122 of 250 copies, this signed by the author on the title-page. Photographic reproductions. Green cloth-covered boards, gilt on the spine and upper cover. A fine copy. Signed by Author(s).