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Victoria R.I. – Elizabeth Longford’s celebrated biography of Queen Victoria, in the 1987 Weidenfeld & Nicolson hardcover with a new introduction by the author.
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Victoria R.I. by Elizabeth Longford, published in London by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited. First published in 1964, this copy is the fourth impression of 1987, which carries an introduction by the author dated 1964 and 1987. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Redwood Burn Limited, Trowbridge, Wiltshire. ISBN 0-297-17001-5.
This is a substantial hardcover in black cloth boards with gilt lettering to the spine, protected by the original pictorial dust jacket showing a portrait of the young Victoria within a decorative border. The rear panel of the jacket carries extracts from reviews in the Sunday Times, The Times, Punch, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Spectator. Victoria R.I. is dedicated to Frank, the author’s husband.
Elizabeth Longford, Countess of Longford, wrote what is still regarded as one of the most complete and readable lives of Queen Victoria. The book follows the Queen from her childhood and accession through her marriage to Prince Albert, her long widowhood and her reign as Empress of India. Reviewers praised it for balancing careful scholarship with lively, witty writing, and above all for its portrait of Victoria and Albert’s relationship.
Victoria R.I. won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography and has remained a standard work on the Victorian era for six decades.
Condition – Near Fine
A near fine hardcover in a near fine dust jacket. The black cloth boards are clean and square with bright gilt spine lettering and only light shelf wear, mostly to the extremities. The binding is tight and the pages are clean and complete. The dust jacket is bright and glossy, with light shelf wear especially at the edges and corners. No inscriptions or bookplates.
