The First Gentlemen of Virginia: Intellectual Qualities of the Early Colonial Ruling Class

San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1940. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with black title block on spine and gilt lettering; xi, 373 pp. VG (overall soiling and wear to boards, pages are otherwise very clean and clear.). Item #180620

Contents include: English patterns for Virginia planters -- The development of a Virginia aristocracy -- The quality of the gentry -- The planters' concern over education -- Books and their place in plantation life -- William Fitzhugh: The evolution of an aristocrat -- Ralph Wormeley II: A cultivated gentleman-planter -- Richard Lee II: A belated Elizabethan -- The literate interests of the first carters -- Robert Beverley II: Historian and iconoclast -- The Byrd's progress from trade to genteel elegence -- The vitality of the tradition.

OCLC: 952461

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