Victoria Remembered: A Royal History 1817-1861, entirely illustrated with Commemoratives
Hardbound
1983 · London
by May, John
London: Heinemann, 1983. Hardbound. VG (DJ has aged slightly; interior clean.). Red cloth with gilt letters on spine; red and color illus. dust jacket. xii, 242 pp., profusely illustrated in bw. "A chronological survey of the public and private life of Queen Victoria up to the death of Prince Albert, [the author] giving his own characteristic, pungent and sometimes irreverent comments on the historical facts and personalities and illustrating them with superlative photographs of the relevant mugs, plates, bowls and other ware. Commemoratives ... bring history home in a way that nothing else can, which is why they are the most apt illustration of our history -- and why to collect them is an interest so rich with scholarly reward." (dj). (Inventory #: 106272)