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THE VICTORIAN ERA

by P. Anderson Graham

Published by Longmans, Green & Co.. 1st. 1897

Almost very good condition. 1837-1897. Mustard yellow cloth, gilt title to spine, gilt oval crest with blue title to front board. Blue floral decoration surrounding gilt crest. Map of The British Empire in 1937 and another in 1897 to front endpapers. B/w photos and illustrations. 245 pages plus 32 page publisher's advert to rear. All edges gilt.

Rear board grubby and marked, spine rubbed and gilt faded. Endpapers browned. Contemporary inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper, a later inscription in ink (1924) to verso of frontis which has bled through the page to the frontis page. One or two minor foxspots to contents but generally clean and tight.

Stock no. 1828463

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Contents

  • CHAPTER
  • I. The Queen's Early Life
  • II. The Death of William IV
  • III. Prince Albert
  • IV. Wife and Widow
  • V. Mother, Grandmother, and Great Grandmother
  • VI. The Old Mail-coach
  • VII. On the Highway
  • VIII. George Stephenson
  • IX. Early Railways
  • X. The Post Office
  • XI. Electricity
  • XII.Steam-ships
  • XIII. The Wheat Fever
  • XIV. The Anti-Corn Law League
  • XV. The Rise of Disraeli
  • XVI. The Passing away of Discontent
  • XVII. Changes in Social Life
  • XVIII. Women and Children in 1987
  • XIX. The Present Condition of Women and Children
  • XX. The Cheap Breakfast-table
  • XXI. Our Foreign Food Supply
  • XXII. The Progress of Medical Science
  • XXIII. The Prevention of Disease
  • XXIV. Battleships
  • XXV. Torpedoes, Mines, Searchlights and Torpedo-destroyers
  • XXVI. The Army and Navy
  • XXVII. Lord Wolseley and Our Little Wars
  • XXVIII. The Expansion of the Empire
  • XXIX. The Condition of India
  • XXX. India's Moral Progress
  • XXXI. India's Material Progress
  • XXXII. Peach and War
  • XXXIII. Modern Heroism
  • XXXIV. Political Progress
  • XXXV. The Triumphs of Peace
  • XXXVI. Celebrities of the Reign
  • XXXVII. The Victorian Era of Literature
  • XXXVIII. The Scientific Writing of the Period
  • XXXIX. The Growth of Kindness
  • XL. Changes in Dress
  • XLI. Conclusion

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