The Age of Scandal

First published in 1950, this is a set of essays on English high life in the later eighteenth century, the world of Horace Walpole's letters, clubs, duels, gossip, and uneasy public manners. White draws on memoirs and correspondence to sketch figures, houses, and scandals rather than to tell one continuous story. The tone is conversational and anecdotal. The book is a social sketch of a period White calls an age of scandal, not a political history of the reigns and not a novel of the eighteenth century.

Quarter bound in dark brown cloth, white paper boards printed with a repeat pattern in pale brown and black by Peter Forster. Pale brown endleaves. Pale brown slipcase.