… p. 179. The West End was paradoxical. It proclaimed the values of monarchy and aristocracy. Thus, even during the Civil War and Interregnum, John Holden's bookshop on the Strand featured works by royalist authors and right up to 1832, the …
… shoes tied with laces. The ostentation of buckles had little place in the more austere male fashions of the Napoleonic Wars or the Regency. 9 . Bernard and Therle Hughes, Georgian Shoe Buckles (London: GLC, 1972), p. 6. From this period, …