The Georgians: The Deeds And Misdeeds Of 18Th-Century Britain

Detailed and well written.

This is certainly a scholarly volume with hundreds of facts and interesting observations , I found the writing style easy to follow and engage with. I loved the links at the end of each section that reference places and objects that can be seen today. Highly recommended !!

Ideal book for people who is interested in Georgian era and Georgian designs, culture, art, architecture...thanks to Yale University Press

I recently observed in a review of another book (Judith Flanders' 'Consuming passions') that the apparently copious illustrations, some in colour, were all left out of the Kindle version, a detail - hardly minor - of which would-be purchasers were not advised. I appreciate that illustrations even just in bl/wh are not a strong point on Kindles, but to be deprived of them totally, and without warning? Having first bought - and instantly returned - the kindle version of that book, I ended up buying the hard copy instead.So I'm pleased to find that illustrations ARE included in the Kindle version of Corfield's 'The Georgians', but only, of course, in black/white; in the hard copy they are both bl/wh and in colour, and of course much better in visual quality.Yet the price for the kindle version is barely less than for the hardback... [That was back in 2022. Editing this review in Oct 2023, I'm pleased to see that the kindle price has dropped]Perhaps you're wondering how I knew, without having even seen the book, that some illustrations are in colour? I had to search an online library catalogue, the better of which include such data. This, Amazon habitually does not: whether kindle or hard copy, we are told the size of a book according to the number of pages, but nothing about illustrations. How difficult is it to append: 'ill., some col.' to the pagination details? It's a darn sight more useful than all the woffle we're instead given about file sizes, page flip etc etc.So that is why I have only awarded 3 stars. If amazon's policy allows, I may be back with a proper, probably 5-star, review of 'The Georgians' at a later date: though I have barely started it, from what I have read so far I expect it to be fascinating. However, I thought I'd write this headsup immediately about what you get for your money, whether kindle or hardcopy. Buyer beware...

Very good a must read