Men of taste, from Pharaoh to Ruskin
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Men of taste, from Pharaoh to Ruskin
Classmark: Bedford Collection B075
Creator(s): Briggs, Martin S (1882-1977)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons
Publication city: New York
Date(s): 1947
Language: English
Size and medium: viii, 232 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729168
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019870755105181
Description
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rameses II. -- Pericles, ruler of Athens. -- Hadrian, Roman emperor. -- Justinian I, Byzantine emperor. -- Charlemagne. -- Henry III of England. -- William of Wykeham. -- Cosimo del Medici. -- Pope Julius II. -- Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII of England. -- Francis I of France. -- Cardinal Richelieu. -- Louis XIV of France. -- John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys. -- The first Duke of Marlborough and his Duchess. -- Lord Burlington. -- Beau Nash at Bath. -- Horace Walpole. -- Napoleon the First. -- The First Gentleman in Europe (George IV) -- Albert the Good. -- Lord Grimthorpe. -- John Ruskin and William Morris.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B075: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: CL/13.
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