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Holmes's superb biographies of Shelley and Coleridge were followed by his dazzling study of the Romantic period, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terr... read more

The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief ...

Richard Holmes

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First edition. Near-fine copy in fine dust jacket. Top and bottom edges of page block somewhat shelfworn.

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

David Cannadine

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First edition. Immaculate, as new, with a pristine dust jacket. A bookseller's label inside front cover (ohn Sandoe).

William Burges and the High Victorian Dream

Joseph Mordaunt Crook

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Near-fine copy with near-fine dust jacket. Pages clean and bright, a little foxing to the top edge but otherwise fine; tight binding and pristine dust jacket with only the lightest of shelf ... read more

The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott

David Cole

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As new, in a very good dustjacket: some light shelfwear, the top and bottom of the spine a little scuffed, but otherwise in excellent condition, the pages bright, firmly bound, with many ill... read more

An Architect of Promise: George Gilbert Scott Junior (1839-1897) and t ...

Gavin Stamp

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First edition in fine condition with a near-fine dust jacket, a tiny nick at the front right corner.

William White: Pioneer Victorian Architect

Gill Hunter

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By looking at the relationships Queen Victoria had with her ten Prime Ministers, AS shows us her changing - and often surprising - involvement in affairs of state.

Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History ...

Anne Somerset

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A society's way of dealing with death can be very revealing. Here, the distinguished historian of Victorian Britain and the domestic sphere shows how their behaviour around death offers deep... read more

Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain ...

Judith Flanders

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A twin to his polished Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century (2018, ?165). Besides looking at notable original work, he also considers revival styles and copies. (Delayed fr... read more

British Furniture 1820 to 1920: The Luxury Market

Christopher Payne

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Looks at Jane's contribution too in this extraordinary personal and creative partnership. SFC's earlier book To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters was excellent.

How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris ...

Suzanne Fagence Cooper

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Presents C19th Italy through the eyes of early photographers, with fine illustrations and excellent essays.

The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900 ...

Maria Antonella Pelizzari

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The story of the son of a Parsi-convert vicar near Birmingham who, convicted for mutilating horses and writing threatening letters to the vicar, contacted Conan Doyle to unravel the mystery ... read more

The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji an ...

Shrabani Basu

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London has twelve vast railway termini. What was involved in their construction (between 1836 and 1900), and what did they do to London?

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built R ...

Christian Wolmar

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An incisive post-mortem on the state of the Victorian union, told (with a gossipy thrill) through the lives of five couples - Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh, John Ruskin and Effie Gray, Charl... read more

Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages

Phyllis Rose

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