Book Details
Title: Excess in Food, Drink and Sex
Author: Charles Neilson Gattey
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Harrap
Year: 1986
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 248
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-245-54397-X
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The Dust Jacket is intact and in good condition. There is rubbing wear to extremities -edges/ends/corners. There is a more moderate crease across the front cover of the dust jacket and a couple of smaller creases on edges. Mild scuffing.
The hardcover is intact and in good condition. Some rubbing/shelf wear to extremities (corners, edges, ends of spine). Crushing to ends of spine and bumping of corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean apart from some stains on the top profile.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact, with faint tanning/discolouration at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"'Moderation is a bore', said Barbara Hutton. On the other hand, Puccini regretted having had so many love affairs saying that he might have written more operas had he not spent so much time in a horizontal position. Louis XVI might have escaped from Madame Guillotine had he not tarried at Varennes o gorge on pig's trotters. The English might not have been routed at Hastings had they not spent the night carousing while the Normans fasted and prayed.
In 'Excess in Food, Drink and Sex', Charles Neilson Gattey examines the effects of excess with colourful examples from the past to the present. We attend bacchanalia and marathon banquets, marvel at the feasts of gluttons, eavesdrop on drunken Parliaments, visit the haunts of the debauched of all classes: eighteenth-century England swamped with gin and port, Louis XV's seraglio and the notorious Aphrodite, Peter the Great shocking he religious with his Most Holy and Most Drunken Synods' orgies, Catherine the Great outstripping her predecessors in the extend of her sexual sport, and erotic temples in the Orient.
Mr Gattey exposes the excesses of some famed sybarites of modern times and ends with chapters on Abnormal Appetites and Aphrodisiacs, and The New Permissiveness. The author concludes with the discovery that the road to ruin is not a straight one but goes round and round in circles."
Book Details
Title: Excess in Food, Drink and Sex
Author: Charles Neilson Gattey
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Harrap
Year: 1986
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 248
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-245-54397-X
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The Dust Jacket is intact and in good condition. There is rubbing wear to extremities -edges/ends/corners. There is a more moderate crease across the front cover of the dust jacket and a couple of smaller creases on edges. Mild scuffing.
The hardcover is intact and in good condition. Some rubbing/shelf wear to extremities (corners, edges, ends of spine). Crushing to ends of spine and bumping of corners. The embossing on the spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean apart from some stains on the top profile.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact, with faint tanning/discolouration at the margins.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"'Moderation is a bore', said Barbara Hutton. On the other hand, Puccini regretted having had so many love affairs saying that he might have written more operas had he not spent so much time in a horizontal position. Louis XVI might have escaped from Madame Guillotine had he not tarried at Varennes o gorge on pig's trotters. The English might not have been routed at Hastings had they not spent the night carousing while the Normans fasted and prayed.
In 'Excess in Food, Drink and Sex', Charles Neilson Gattey examines the effects of excess with colourful examples from the past to the present. We attend bacchanalia and marathon banquets, marvel at the feasts of gluttons, eavesdrop on drunken Parliaments, visit the haunts of the debauched of all classes: eighteenth-century England swamped with gin and port, Louis XV's seraglio and the notorious Aphrodite, Peter the Great shocking he religious with his Most Holy and Most Drunken Synods' orgies, Catherine the Great outstripping her predecessors in the extend of her sexual sport, and erotic temples in the Orient.
Mr Gattey exposes the excesses of some famed sybarites of modern times and ends with chapters on Abnormal Appetites and Aphrodisiacs, and The New Permissiveness. The author concludes with the discovery that the road to ruin is not a straight one but goes round and round in circles."
