THE DANDY: BRUMMELL TO BEERBOHM BY ELLEN MOERS
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Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (1960. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Book Condition: Very Good with light shelfwear and light wear to spine (see image). 372pp. Illustrated with 13 black-and-white plates. Text in English.
Traces the rise, evolution, and social influence of dandyism from its origins with Beau Brummell in Regency England through its French transformation (Balzac, Baudelaire, Barbey d'Aurevilly) to its Victorian demise and the Oscar Wilde/Max Beerbohm period of fin de siècle decadence. Scholars and sartorial historians consider Moers' landmark work the definitive analysis of the dandy as both a social creature and a literary trope. Scarce in this condition.
