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The Ultra-Fashionable Peerage of America: An Official List of Those People Who Can Properly Be Called Ultra-Fashionable in the United States. By Charles Wilbur de Lyon Nichols New York: George Harjes, 1904.
A rather exuberant, not to say breathless work, droll yet not quite satirical, delineating the lifestyles of the crème de la crème of gilded age society. The elaborate intricacies of appropriate dress for particular occasions, the genealogies of the social set, the rituals of Newport society and the schemes of arrivistes and interlopers are all minutely depicted.
Complete with a printed list of Mrs. Astor’s “The 400” and even more exclusively, “The 150.” Inscribed and signed by the author to Miss Lota Robinson, a prominent member of the elite society set he was chronicling. Hardcover, 111 pp. A bit of mottling and spotting to front board. Pages quite clean.
