by Georgette Heyer ; with a foreword by Susan Wiggs.
Detroit :
Thorndike Press,
2008.
279 pages ;
23 cm.
Thorndike Press large print clean reads.
Originally published in 1923 under title: The transformation of Philip Jettan. Republished in 1930 minus the original last chapter as: Powder and patch.
Cleone Charteris, whose exquisite charms have made her the belle of the English countryside, yearns for a husband who is refined, aristocratic and who is as skilled with his wit as he is with his dueling pistols; Philip Jettan departs for the courts of Paris to acquire the social graces he needs.