Buy this book on-line Longford, Elizabeth : Victoria R. IHarper & Row, Harper & Row, 1973
vg, g dj(sl edgewear); B029904; 287, 1st Illus Edition Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Longford, Elizabeth : Victoria R. I. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Longford, Elizabeth : Victoria R.IHarper & Row, New York, 1973 ISBN 0060126728
287pp. B&W and Color Illustrations. Neat ink name, 8vo, Very Good in Very Good DJ Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Longford, Elizabeth : Victoria R.I. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. LONGFORD, ELIZABETH [Elizabeth Pakenham,Countess of Longford.CBE -nee Harman]: : VICTORIA R.ILONDON.THE HISTORY BOOK CLUB,1964. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,large 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus. [Originally first published WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1964,this simultaneous issue by History Book Club,so 1st edn thus.] VG+/VG.No owner inscrptn,no clip to dw/dj - absence of price,as a History Book Club's subscription issue.Wrap-around, glossy,laminated photographic+illustrated design - using as the background,a Victorian,white 'Honiton' lace scarf from the V & A Museum and the dark blue,sash Ribbon of The Most Noble of the Order of the Garter,the ribbon placed obliquely across the dw/dj's body,from top front corner to rear lower corner with gilt letters across the ribbon at front and spine and black lettered author name on front and her name at head and the HBC logo at foot of spine respectively. Chipping,rubbing and curling of head+foot edges of the spine and most of the other edges,due to laminate ageing and its breakdown,to the dw/dj - but no major nicks,tears or splits and any similar loss.Top edges with light,sporadic dust- soiling spotting,fore-edge brighter and cleaner but with faint minor thumbing and blemish; contents overall,generally bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - with an indeterminate smear/splash to top fore- edge of pp435 excepted.Sharp-cornered, publisher's original,plain black cloth boards,pale blue panel with bright,crisp, blocked gilt top+bottom edges with decoration and gilt lettered title+author within,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,large 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,15-635pp [paginated] includes Parts One + Two comprising XXI(21) and 15 chapters respectively,profuse (51) facsimile,contemporary 19thC b/w illustrations and photographs interspersed throughout the book and text,notes,a 7pp gate-fold genealogical tree/table of Victoria's ancestry and descendants between pp604/5, and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,separate contents+illustrations lists/tables,author's acknowledgements, author's note,individual Pts separator pages and to the rear 4pp blanks.
A very uncommon,issued edn.
Queen Victoria,a woman of diminutive stature and superabundant temperament, often lamented that fate had not decreed for her the life of a simple Hausfrau.Yet she gave her name to something more than an age.
The young Queen is shown tormented by an unhappy childhood, enraptured by a lovematch (on both sides),tantalised by an all too brief period of happy marriage.The effects of the Prince Consort's death, which ends Part I,are treated in depth so that for the first time the shock which drove Queen Victoria into her long retirement seems easy to understand.In Pt II the Queen's renowned qualities,whether admirable or otherwise,gradually mature. Alongside them appear some surprising traits which combine to present her in a fresh,thoroughly human light.
Elizabeth Longford,member of RSL(Royal Society of Literature),CBE (1906-2002),was a historical biographer and matriarch,best known for 'Victoria RI' (1964),her very scholarly and very readable life of Britain's Queen Victoria,which won the James Tait Black Prize,and also for her magisterial 'Wellington: Years of the Sword',1969 and also 'Wellington: Pillar of State',1972.
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