Queen Victoria: From Her Birth to the Death of Prince Consort

Hardcover Book Club Edition Very Good+ black dust Jacket/some small tears ruffling on its edges in larger chair base of spine blue wash top of book – deckle edge pages – blue endpapers 25 pages of photographs, paintings and drawings jacket design Muriel Nasser -Book Thick volume. Gold-stamped burnt orange cloth. tight & Clean, clean text. Index. With b/w photos, The age of Queen Victoria is frought with myths and legends about the woman and her court. Mrs. Woodham-Smith brings the era alive with a personalized look at the queen and the many goings on before, during and after her reign. There are many stories about her and her famous consort, Prince Albert. Woodham-Smith supplies the necessary level of detail and background, and demonstrates the solid research skills that make this a serious work, she never forgets that the reason most readers pick up this book is - Victoria! A monarch who was also girl and woman, daughter and sister, wife and mother, in an era when each of those roles conflicted wildly with the one that destiny called on her to play.
- out of print- Queen Victoria, from Her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort Borzoi book -Cecil Woodham Smith Edition hardcover book club edition Publisher -Knopf, 1972 ISBN 039448245X, 9780394482453 486 pages see pictures maybe this will do it maybe it won't.--Expedited Shipping available-by request/ price adjust-Ruth Reaser..LAX Vespa shipped -United States Post to fulfill your order, Los Angeles I carefully pack your book,hop on my Vespa visit the PO to have it placed in our mail system.. -books wrapped,not co-mingled,you get the copy you were viewing.-- very carefully packed/wrapped-- Queen Victoria 3894 Grey Hist bio 21