The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance.

FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952).

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 1913. [Classic Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 599 [17]. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and white to upper. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Very light spotting to preliminaries, and some light toning to endpapers. Spine slightly toned, with some light rubbing to cloth. Very good. The Amateur Gentleman tells the story of Barnabas Barty, the son of John Barty, the former champion boxer of England and landlord of a pub in Kent. At the start of the tale, Barnabas comes fortuitously into the possession of a vast fortune - £700,000, an astronomical amount by Regency standards - and determines to use this fortune to become a gentleman. His father objects to this plan and they quarrel, and settle their differences in a round of fisticuffs, which Barnabas wins, beating his father fair and square. Barnabas sets off for London in the furtherance of his ambitions and on the way there contrives to make a number of influential friends and enemies. Item #59290

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