The Life of Richard Nash, Esq. Late Master of Ceremonies at Bath. Extracted principally from His Original Papers.. Cet article n’est pas disponible.The Life of Richard Nash, Esq. Late Master of Ceremonies at Bath. Extracted principally from His Original Papers.

Hardback, 8.25 x 5 inches. In full calf leather binding, raised and gilt banding to spine with gilt lettering to leather spine label. Red speckled page edges. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to edges of boards and spine. Slight crack between front endpapers. Bookplate to front ?Alys Luttrell, Dunster Castle.? Occasional handling marks and foxing spots to pages. Else a clean and tight copy. 237pp + 2pp adverts. With a B&W engraved frontis portrait. A notable biography written by the celebrated author Oliver Goldsmith, first published in 1762. It chronicles the life of Richard "Beau" Nash (1674?1761), the famous dandy and gambler who became the "King of Bath". Goldsmith was fascinated by Nash?s eccentric character and compiled the biography using Nash's original papers and personal anecdotes while recovering from illness in Bath during the summer of 1762.