Author Name: Gloag, John
Title: Victorian Comfort: a Social History of Design from 1830-1900
Binding: Cloth Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: No Jacket Type: Ex-Library Edition: First Edition Size: 7.5 x 10" Publisher: London Adam and Charles Black 1961 Illustrator: Frith, William Powell; O'Connor, John; Burton, Sir Richard Francis; Bovill, P. C. E.
Seller ID: 005869
xv, 252pp inc index colour frontis of Railway Station by William Powell Frith and 16 b+w plates - Covers (red cloth with gilt titles to spine) is soiled (esp to rear board), and edgeworn with bumped corners. Standard ex-lib markings and stamps, otherwise clean and tight. All plates present (except where otherwise noted) and accounted for. Read on for more information about the book and/or author. A sociology of the Victorian era, focusing on design and the arts in the UK and to a lesser degree the US. The author discusses a variety of subjects from The Strand and Punch magazines to Furniture and Railways, from Smoking, the the "Flying Scotsman", Resorts, Art, Music, and Theatre,
Victoriana, Sociology, History, Design, William Powell Frith, John O'Connor, Sir Richard Francis Burton, P. C. E. Bovill, The Strand, Furniture, Punch, John Tenniel, Railways, Smoking, the "Flying Scotsman", Resorts, Art, Music, Theatre,
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14.87 GBP |