The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
by Field, Ophelia
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About This Item
London: Harper Collins, 2008. 1st edition. As New. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xix + 524pp., col. pls., notes, bibliog., index, ÔJacob Tonson (a London Bookseller) and Christopher (Kit) Cat (a pie-maker) cultivated London's intellectual life & became an unofficial centre of Whig power during the reigns of William & Mary, Anne & George I. This book looks at its members (eg William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, John Vanbrugh etc) and the club's rivalries, friendships and fortunesÕ
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical referernces (p. 397-424) and index.
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- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
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- Title
- The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation
- Author
- Field, Ophelia
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Size
- octavo
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