 Author Name: WARNER, Marina
Title: QUEEN VICTORIA'S SKETCHBOOK
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: London Macmillan 1979
ISBN Number: 0333271327 / 9780333271322
Seller ID: 6395
Book in near fine condition, tiny piece missing at bottom edge of front endpaper, otherwise in fine condition. Dustjacket in good condition, slightly rubbed at spine ends and outer corner edges, 1" closed tear by outer top edge, with a few small nicks at top and bottom edges. Price clipped. 224pp, including Bibliography, References and Index. With coloured frontispiece, and numerous colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout the book, there are many full-page, a few are double-page, the rest in text, there are illustrations on most of the pages and all are water-colours and pencil drawings. The book is entirely illustrated with Queen Victoria's own work, including ballet and opera, her coronation and wedding, the ever-increasing family, and her trips abroad.. The author uses Queen Victoria's own journals to describes her private life and the part her paintings and her subjects played in it. (10½"h x 7½"w) (24.5cms x 19cms) approx.
Biography Art Queen Victoria sketches Highlands Empire water-colour paintings royalty journals
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