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When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary fashion designer. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as...

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Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Minor chipsto edge of DJ, some minor discolouration to spine. In the...

Queen Victoria's Skull explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Some marks and specks on boards. Bumped corners and...

The book titled Victoria: Biography of a Queen by the author Stanley Weintraub. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Sir Charles PetrieBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis compelling historical account, Great Beginnings In The Age Of Queen Victoria, chronicles the foundational years of...

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Edition: RU ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling historical account, Victoria Travels: Journeys Of Queen Victoria Between 1830 And 1900 With Extracts From Her...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBehind the gilded formality of the Victorian court lay a monarch of surprising artistic sensitivity — Queen Victoria's Sketchbook by Marina Warner presents a fascinating...

Author: David DuffBinding: HardbackPublished: Frederick Muller., 1970Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor tears to corners of DJ, top-edge discoloured from...

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...

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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work of biographical literature, Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey chronicles...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis historical biography, Queen Victoria Was Amused, chronicles the private life and public persona of one of...

Photographs of Queen Victoria most often show a plump Empress wearing widow's black; serious and regal. The posed portrait photos were stiff, formal affairs, partly because subjects needed to stay...

Everybody knows Victoria married a chap called Albert and wore black clothes - all the time. But did you know that Victoria: Went on her holidays in disguise? Was best...

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A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't...

'Queen Victoria had a very complicated and psychologically fascinating personality and only a very talented biographer could get to the key of her character. Fortunately in Matthew Dennison's pithy, well-researched,...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis historical satire The Secret Life Of Queen Victoria: Her Majesty's Missing Diaries chronicles...

For the better part of the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria came into power over Great Britain and Ireland, among the other areas in control of the British Empire. Her period...

In the 19th century, a revolution took place in how we ate - from the highest table in the land to the most humble. Annie Gray's book is both a...

Author: Richard HoughBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markings'Advice To My Grand-Daughter: Letters From Queen Victoria To Princess Victoria Of Hesse presents...

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The novel takes you to the smoggy, cobbled streets of Victoria s vile and villainous Britain, but not as you know them . . . A layer of horror will...

On 6th July 1868, when told of the birth of her seventh granddaughter, Queen Victoria remarked that the news was 'a very uninteresting thing for it seems to me to...

A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother. As her reign approached its sixth decade, Queen Victoria's...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThis historical account chronicles the numerous, often overlooked, military engagements that defined the British Empire's expansion during Queen Victoria's reign....

A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets...

Author: Georgie Blalock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Before Princess Margaret, before Duchess Meghan, there was Princess Louise: royal rebel. As the fourth daughter of the perpetually...

Selected for The Best Cookery Books to Give This Year , Daily Mail The Best of the Year's Cookbooks , The Spectator "A lovely book of scrumptious dishes." Alexandra Shulman...

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