3544X1 First Edition. British Broadcasting Company, London: 1972. 150 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition. Dustjacket is taped at the bottom. Presents a view of the Regency era through the eyes of ten well-known people of the time: Beau Brummell, arbiter of fashion; Samuel Whitbread, wealthy tradesman struggling to use his influence to promote the welfare of the underprivileged; Lord Byron; Maria Fitzherbert, the Prince Regent's canonical wife; The fifth Earl of Selkirk, who attempted to pioneer a human system of emigration; The Duke of Wellington; William Wilberforce, who struggled for the abolition of slavery; Sir Walter Scott; Samuel Bamford, the Lancashire weaver; and Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0563106964 $61.85USD
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