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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...

Celebrating the astounding creativity and originality of designer Alexander McQueen, who relentlessly questioned and confronted the requisites of fashion "An authoritative and moving insight into the legacy of the British...

Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary...

They were the working-class British boys who shook fashion to its core, bringing the edginess of the London club scene to French couture and taking excess to its limits. In...

The past has never left Billy. It's just been waiting for him to come and find it... It's been over thirty years since Billy last called Northern Ireland home. Back...

Author: Louise Rytter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 'When times are hard, fantasy and escapism are crucial' Alexander McQueen Having grown up in London's East End, Alexander McQueen left...

The kimono is the ultimate symbol of Japan, revered within the country as the embodiment of national culture and regarded internationally as an exotic fascination. The iconic garment is often...

Celebrated world-wide for his modern romantic jewels that push the boundaries of contemporary design, Shaun Leane has been responsible for creating a new genre of jewellery; precious, poetic, with a...

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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...

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...

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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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...

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: 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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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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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...

'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,...

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...

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...

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: NewJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: New in its original plastic wrap. Few objects in fashion history carry the mythological weight of the high heel — at once a symbol...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedA cornerstone of home libraries and scholarly studies alike, The New Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary of The English Language stands...