Royalty in All Ages: The Amusements, Eccentricities, Accomplishments, Superstitions, and Frolics of the Kings and Queens of Europe

ix, 443 pp. Illustrated with six etched portraits from contemporary engravings. Blue boards with gilt title on spine, gilt crown decor on front board, top edge gilt, deckled edges. CONTENTS: Royalty at Play; Freaks of Royalty; Royal Revelry; Royal Epicures; Curious Fads of Royalty; Dancing Monarchs; Royal Hobbies; The Royal Hunt; Royal Masques and Masquerades; Royalty in Disguise; Royal Gamesters; Royalty on the Turf; Royal Sports and Pastimes; Court Dwarfs; Royal Pets; Royal Jokes and Humour; Royalty and Fashion; Royalty Whipt and Married by Proxy;; Court Jesters and Fools; Royalty and the Drama; Royal Authors; Royal Musicians; Superstitions of Royalty; Index.