1792 The Jockey Club, or a Sketch of the Manners of the Age

Description

Early Edition, Original Binding

A humorous and satirical guidebook on the manners of the eighteenth-century elite, The Jockey Club explores the social etiquette and gossip of this aristocratic social organisation. Including chapters on the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Duke of Queensbury, the Earl of Chesterfield, and more. 

Written by radical satirist Charles Pigott, an ardent supporter of the French Revolution. 

Comprising of the complete three parts bound together in one volume:

Part I, present in the third edition, ESTC N47232. Lacking the half title.

Part II, present in the third edition, ESTC T76062.

Part II, present in the second edition, ESTC T76061.

With the bookplate of Ernest Hutton to the front pastedown, and a former owner's inscription to the title page of volume I.

  With a 1793 inscription to the head of the front free endpaper, describing the publisher H. Symonds's sentencing to 'Newgate, for publishing Paine's works, and the Jockey Club'.