Published by the Folio Society, London in 1995.
 
The book is in excellent condition with pictorial green cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Contains colour illustrations by Leonard Rosoman. Introduction by Frederic Raphael. Pages and illustrations remain bright and clear. Binding remains firm.
 
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder was first published in 1945. It follows, from the 1920s to the early 1940s, the life and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder, most especially his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
 
Ryder has relationships with two of the Flytes: Sebastian and Julia. The novel explores themes including nostalgia for the age of English aristocracy, Catholicism, and the nearly overt homosexuality of Sebastian Flyte's eccentric friends at Oxford University. A faithful and well-received television adaptation of the novel was produced in an 11-part miniseries by Granada Television in 1981.