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Wilson, A. N : The Victorians

W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 2003

ISBN 0393049744

724pp. B&W and Color Illustrations. A dramatic, revisionist history of an age whose material triumphs and spiritual crises prefigure our own, 8vo, Fine in Fine DJ

1st Edition

WILSON**, A[ndrew] N[orman]: : THE VICTORIANS

LONDON.HUTCHISON,2002.

ISBN 0091794218.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Bright,crisp, clean,matt,montaged monochrome and colour tinted photographic illustrated dw/dj panels with glossy embossedcapitalised lettered title and capitalised,black lettered author name to front, similarly coloured lettering to a slightly faded spine/backstrip - book's title lettering faded to a pale brown,photographic rear panel with b/w barcode; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean without ageing or foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain navy blue cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip,a silver+navy blue striped headband, and immaculate plain navy blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+1-724pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,illustrations list/table,acknowledgements,a Preface,Pts I-VI comprising 43 chapters,32pp contemporary b/w+colour illustrations reproductions and b/w+colour contemporary photographs in 4 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp148/49 (b/w),pp308/9 (colour),pp404/5 (b/w) and pp564/65 respectively,Notes,a 29pp bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age, and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It is only the minor exterior faults described that prevents a slightly higher grading.Despite them,it really is an exceptional copy for it's brightness and cleanliness. The 'global village' is a Victorian village and many of the ideas we take for granted,for good or ill,originated with these extraordinary, self-confident people.What really animated their spirit,and how did they remake the world in their view? In an entertaining and often dramatic narrative,A.N. Wilson shows us remarkable people in the very act of creating the Victorian age.The capitalist world came into being because of actual business men,actual journalists,actual politicians.We meet them in the pages of this book.It was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx,William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are.Here are the lofty and famous - Prince Albert,Lord Palmerston,Charles Dickens,Gladstone and Disraeli - and here too are the poor and the obscure - doctors ministering to cholera victims in the big cities,young women working as models for the famous painters,the man who got the British hooked on cigarettes,the butchers and victims of conflict in Ireland,India and Africa. People,not abstract ideas,make history,and nowhere is this more revealed than in A.N. Wilson's superb new portrait of the Victorians, in which hundreds of different lives have been pieced together to tell a story - one which is still unfinished in our own day. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included.Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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