Brief lives (2015)

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Brief lives (2015)
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Biography & True Stories

Brief lives (2015)

John Aubrey
Edition year 2015
Binding Buckram
Illustrator Joe Ciardiello
Weight 2 Kg
Pages 456
Dimensions 24.8 × 16.6 cm

Edition details

Brief Lives by John Aubrey. 2nd edition. Introduced by Peter Conrad. 13 black & white illustrations; 4 colour illustrations by Joe Ciardiello. Black & white illustrated title-page spread. Quarter-bound in black buckram with Modigliani paper sides, covers printed with a colour design by the artist. Mid-brown slipcase and endpapers. 456pp. 24.8x16.6cm

About the book

John Aubrey's Brief Lives is a remarkable collection of short biographical sketches of seventeenth-century figures. Aubrey writes about writers, scholars, politicians and acquaintances with unusual informality, including gossip, habits and personal details often omitted from formal biography. The result is one of the liveliest portraits of Restoration intellectual and social life.

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