EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND : 1830-1865.
by YOUNG, G.M. (George Malcolm), 1882-1959 - editor :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Oxford University Press, 1934. First edition. A magisterial and richly illustrated study of the background to mid nineteenth-century England, with chapters on Work and Wages (J. H. Clapham), Homes and Habits, Town Life and London (R. H. Mottram), Life in the New Towns, Country Life and Sport (Bernard Darwin), The Navy, The Army, The Mercantile Marine (Basil Lubbock), The Press, Art, Architecture (A. E. Richardson), Music, Drama (Allardyce Nicoll), Holidays and Travel, Charity, Expansion and Emigration, and the Portrait of an Age. Two volumes. Medium 8vo (24cm). [ii],(xxvi),414,[ii]; viii,558,[ii]pp. Errata slip. Numerous plates drawn from contemporary sources. Facsimiles. Original cloth gilt; some spotting of edges, one endpaper lightly tanned, but a very good set in the original dust-jackets - lightly tanned, slightly worn and a little chipped.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36169
- Title
- EARLY VICTORIAN ENGLAND : 1830-1865.
- Author
- YOUNG, G.M. (George Malcolm), 1882-1959 - editor :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Oxford University Press, 1934.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English History, Social History
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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