The clothing designer Paul Smith devoted an entire collection to Tamagni's book, "Gentleman of Bacongo," and in 2010 Tamagni received the ICP Infinity award for Applied Fashion photography.
("A club," wrote Anthony Lejeune in his 1979 book, The Gentlemen's Clubs of London, "is a place where a man goes to be among his own kind").
Her next book, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1928), was also successful.
Guests included Cindy Lauper, Wendy Wasserstein and a leading character in the book, a gentleman known as The Lady Chablis.
Readers of the book, "The Gentleman's Directory," learned that "an hour cannot be spent more pleasantly" than at Harry Hill's place on 25 East Houston Street.
As Shirley Robin Letwin wrote in her book "The Gentleman in Trollope," the Duke of St. Bungay had "modest expectations of his fellow men," but he was never cynical.
His book "The Gentleman's Companion," published in 1939, has become a collector's item among cocktail types, and occasionally you'll find one of his liquid creations popping up on a modern cocktail list.
By giving every book a gentleman's C? By splitting the difference between his likes and dislikes, his enthusiasms and aversions, and turning out copy so bland and so uninteresting that no one will want to read it in the first place, but all will declare it fair-minded and unbiased?
Collection comprises a printed 1853 "West of England Pocket Book or Gentleman's Diary with an almanack" presented to Isabella Gardner by her husband in 1852.
"They called themselves the Chipmunks," Jonathan Mahler, whose book, "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning," was the basis for the ESPN series, said of the press gang then.
