Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Follies and Fashions of Our Grandfathers (1807): Embellished With Plates Including Ladies and Gentlemen's Dress With Sporting and Coaching Scenes Fanciful Prints, Portraits of Celebrities, Portraits
In their acceptance of an always ungrudgingly dealt supply Of sober and wearisome padding, freely leavened, however, with matter extremely amusing, our ancestors appear to have been more docile than their descendants. The pages containing the heavier reading being generally unthumbed, it may be taken for granted they were skipped.
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