THE LIFE OF GEORGE BRUMMELL ESQ. Commonly called BEAU BRUMMELL by CAPTAIN JESSE Revised and annotated edition from the Author's own interleaved copy with 40 Portraits in Colour of Brummell and his Contemporaries in Two Volumes.

Publisher: John C. Rimmo, London, 1886. Limited to 300 copies for England and 200 copies for America. No more will be printed.

Description: Brown cloth covers with gilt image of Brummell on the cover and gilt lettering on a black paste down label on the spine. Deckled edges. Illustrated frontis with a total of 40 throughout the two volumes.

Condition:  Good. Corners are bumped and covers rubbed. Spine tops and bottoms are bent, the labels are cracked and chipped and volume II is missing part of the title. (see photos) Covers are shaken on both volumes but firmly attached. Top edge is soiled and the deckled edges are soiled and bent. Owner's bookplates inside each cover. Browning and foxing to endpapers. Illustrations have bled color to the facing pages and left a ghost image. Pages are browned around edges but clean and tight to the spine. 

Pages: Vol I: 363, Vol II: 364 plus 29 pages advertising

Size: 6.25" x 9.5"

Weight: 4 lbs 8 ozs

George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (1778 –  1840) was an important figure in Regency England and for many years the arbiter of men's fashion. At one time he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled, and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France. Eventually he died shabby and insane in Caen.

Brummell was remembered afterwards as the preeminent example of the dandy and a whole literature was founded upon his manner and witty sayings which has persisted. His name is still associated with style and good looks, and it has been given to a variety of modern products to suggest their high quality.  Wikipedia.