Georgiana - Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman - 1998

London: HarperCollins, 1998. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. There is a small, neat p.o's stamped name and address to the bottom of the f.f.e.p. obverse, else the item is clean & tight with no other inscriptions.The dust-jacket is clean, bright and colourfast, has minimal 'shelf-wear' - and is unclipped (unpriced). " In the tradition of Antonia Fraser & Stella Tillyard, and drawing on a prodigious amount of fresh research, Amanda Foreman writes beautifully and penetratingly about one of the great figures of the late eighteenth century, a woman whose strugge against her own weaknesses, whose great beauty and flamboyance, and whose determination to play a part in the affairs of the world, made her an icon in her own time and a fascinating foil for our own." 464 pages; text; b & w and coloured photographs; annotations; bibliography; index; genealogical charts to boards/end papers.