Memoirs of a Georgian Rake

Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Hickey. William; Edited by Roger Hudson. Published by The Folio Society, London, 1995. Small 8vo up to 9½" tall., 415pp. with wood engravings throughout by John Lawrence. Quarter burgundy cloth over marbled boards, blue top edge; mapped endpapers. Housed in a matching slipcase. In fine, unread condition with the lightest of shelf wear to slipcase. William Hickey (30 June 1749 – 31 May 1830) was an English lawyer, but is best known for his vast Memoirs, composed in 1808–10 and published between 1913 and 1925, which in their manuscript form cover seven hundred and forty closely written pages. Described by Peter Quennell as "One of the most remarkable books of its kind ever published in the English Language", Hickey's Memoirs give an extraordinarily vivid picture of life in late 18th-century London, Calcutta, Madras and Jamaica which stands comparison with the best of his near-contemporary James Boswell.