COURTESANS.
by HICKMAN, KATIE:
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0007113919
- ISBN 13
- 9780007113910
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial illustrated picture [of Sarah Bernhardt in the role of the Queen in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo,1879 by George Clairin (1843-1919)] to upper panel and repeated to spine/ backstrip and round to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Majority of minimal creasing is to top edges with miniscule bumping and reciprocal creasing to head of spine/ backstrip of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean; contents bright, tight and pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - possibly unread, apart from my own collation? Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a pale yellow headband,and immaculate plain pale yellow endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,x-xixpp+1-363pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/ table,author acknowledgements,author's note,a prologue,an introduction,5 chapters/biographies,profuse contemporary b/w+colour illustrations and some b/w photographs - 16pp in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp108/9 and pp236/7 respectively,a conclusion,notes,a select bibligraphy and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,a dedication,and a contents list/table. During the course of the 18th and 19th centuries a small group of women rose from impoverished obscurity to positions of great power,independence and wealth.In doing so they took control of their lives - and those of other people - and made the world do their will.
Men ruined themselves in desperate attempts to gain and retain a courtesan's favours,but she was always courted for far more than sex.In an age in which women were generally not well educated she was often unusually literate and literary,courted for her conversation as well as her physical company.Courtesans were extremely accomplished,and exerted a powerful influence as leaders of fashion and society.They were not received at Court,but inhabited their own parallel world - the demi-monde - complete with its own hierarchies,etiquette and protocol. They were queens of fashion,linguists,musicians, accomplished at political intrigue and,of course,possessors of great erotic gifts.Even to be seen in public with one of the great courtesans was a much-envied achievement.
In 'Courtesans' Katie Hickman,author of the bestselling 'Daughters of Britannia',focuses on the exceptional stories of five outstanding English women.Sophia Baddeley, Elizabeth Armistead, Harriette Wilson, Cora Pearl and Catherine Walters may have had very different personalities and talents,but their lives exemplify the dazzling existence of the courtesan.
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja656117
- Title
- COURTESANS.
- Author
- HICKMAN, KATIE:
- Illustrator
- illus with contemporary b/w+colour illus and photographs.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0007113919
- ISBN 13
- 9780007113910
- Publisher
- LONDON.HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS,2003.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2003
- Keywords
- q52.BIOGRAPHY.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0007113919.English courtesans_Sophia Baddeley_Elizabeth Armisteas_Harriette Wilson_Cora Pearl_Catherine Walters.Court Fashion.Demi-monde_hierarchies_etiquette_protocol.Books new,used,signed,rare.
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