The Wits and Beaux of Society.  With Illustrations from Drawings by H. K. Browne and James Godwin. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. In Two Volumes  London: James Hogg & Sons, [n.d., 1860].

First edition of this book by the Whartons (pseudonyms for Katherine Thompson and her son, John Cockburn Thompson).

Two octavo volumes. xii, [1]-322; [viii], [1]-292 pp. With fifteen (out of sixteen) plates inserted.

[Together With:]

WHARTON, Grace and Philip. The Queens of Society. Illustrated by Charles Altamont Doyle and the Brothers Dalziel. In Two Volumes. London: James Hogg & Sons, [n.d., 1860].

First edition.

Two octavo volumes. [xiv], [1]-340; [viii], [1]-[338] pp. With sixteen plates inserted.

Together, four octavo volumes. Uniformly bound in contemporary half red levant morocco over marbled boards, spines ruled in gilt and black, and lettered in gilt in compartments, five raised bands, edges stained yellow, marbled endpapers. Volume II of Queens of Society lacking half-title, an inexpert repair to the paper at the inner margin of p. 337/338, spines darkened, some wear to joints, some rubbing to covers, a few minor soil marks in text. Each volume with the armorial bookplate of Charles A. Welch. A good copy.

Katherine Thompson (1797-1862), historian and novelist, wrote using a pen-name as was common for women writers of her day. She wrote well-received biographies of Henry VIII and Sir Walter Raleigh. Her later works, such as the two above, are not as in-depth and well-researched as her earlier ones, but are still an interesting look at historical figures.

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