GLADSTONE HEROIC MINISTER 1865-1898
Written by Richard Shannon.
Stock no. 1331402
Published by Allen Lane. 1st 1999. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Black boards, gilt title to spine. Some b/w photos. 702 pages. ISBN: 0713992530. Spine slightly bumped. Foxing to textblock and endpapers. Textblock is slightly grubby. Dustwrapper is lightly edge creased.

ENGLISH MEN AND MANNERS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (A GALAXY BOOK)
Written by A.S. Turberville.
Stock no. 1831464
Published by Oxford University Press. 1961. Almost very good condition.

This vivid portrait of an exuberant era peopled by forceful and colorful personalities is a social and political history of the eighteenth century that is a happy blend of information and entertaining illustrations. Pictorial cardwraps. B/w illustrations. xxiii and 539 pages. Second printing of this edition. Covers are a little grubby, creasing to rear cover. Reading wear vertically to spine. Joints pulled but binding still tight. Text block is browned and grubby. Contents clean.

VICTORIAN CITIES
Written by Asa Briggs.
Stock no. 1831267
Published by Odhams Press Limited. 1st 1963. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

A comparative study in urban history, Victorian Cities examines the 19th-century history of four developing cities in England in a period of rapid growth, with chapters on London and Melbourne and references to Los Angeles and Chicago as well. Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 416 pages including index. Lower corners and spine lightly bumped/shelf-worn. Text block very dusty to top edge. Pale foxing to endpapers and prelims. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Else contents clean. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is lightly edge-creased and is sunned to spine.

GODLINESS AND GOOD LEARNING: FOUR STUDIES ON A VICTORIAN IDEAL
Written by D. Newsome.
Stock no. 1831252
Published by John Murray. 1st 1961. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

"Rootless, godless, ignorant and lost," the adjectives used by an eminent scholar to describe the rising generation of our times, could never be applied to the generation that grew into manhood at the time of the Great Exhibition of 1851. For this was an age of dedicated lives, of men who were proud of the past and confident of the future, of a ruling class which was both purposeful and devout. Includes two biographical studies, one of an idealist Victorian headmaster and one representing the exemplar of the ideal, a Winchester schoolboy. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. xii and 291 pages including index. Light rubbing and minor discolouration to top & tail of spine. Text block browned with some foxing. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers browned. A few scattered foxspots. Purple patterned dustwrapper is edge-worn with a few small tears and chips.

ANGLICAN ATTITUDES: A STUDY OF VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES
Written by A.O.J. Cockshut.
Stock no. 1830993
Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. 1st 1959. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

In the second half of the 19th century the Church of England suddenly found that its official religious monopoly was being seriously threatened. At a time of growing challenge from the Roman Church on the one hand and Agnosticism on the other, Anglicans were thrown into confusion by three celebrated controversies - the Gorham case, Essays & Reviews, and the Colenso case. A most readable account of the events which ended in the body of Anglican Bishops openly defying the Privy Council. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. 128 pages including index. Boards clean, top corners bumped. Text block browned with minor foxing. Neat inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few foxspots to prelims and endpapers. Pictorial dustwrapper is scuffed and a little grubby, worn at corners, lightly faded to spine.

JOHN STUART MILL: VICTORIAN FIREBRAND
Written by Richard Reeves.
Stock no. 1830992
Published by Atlantic Books. 1st thus 2008. Very good condition.

A biography of John Stuart Mill, an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. Richard Reeves covers Mill's political and social activism in detail. Mill identified problems with Victorian London, and he wanted to fix them. He was driven to make Victorian London a better place with less poverty, less overcrowding, and more prosperity. Pictorial cardwraps. A few b/w illustrations. 616 pages including index. ISBN: 9781843546443. Light reading creases (vertical) to spine. Corners a little creased and lightly rubbed. Text block a little grubby. Some foxing to contents else clean.

EMINENT VICTORIANS
Written by Lytton Strachey; Michael Holroyd.
Stock no. 1829321
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2000. Very good condition.

Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon. Introduced by Michael Holroyd. Green and gold pictorial cloth, white title block to spine. Colour illustrations. 272 pages. Small foxspot to top edge of text block else a lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is scuffed and marked (VG).

LEAVES FROM THE JOURNAL OF OUR LIFE IN THE HIGHLANDS
Written by Queen Victoria; Arthur Helps; Delia Millar.
Stock no. 1829106
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus 2002. Nearly fine condition.

Published in honour of The Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. From Queen Victoria's journal, 1848 to 1861. Introduced by Delia Millar. Red buckram cloth covered boards with extensive gilt and black decorations. Bevelled boards. B/w and colour illustrations. Limited edition of 1850 numbered copies. Large format. All edges gilt. Light vertical crease to free front endpaper, tip of lower corner of contents lightly creased (likely to have been dropped at some point but boards not affected). Else a lovely copy. This is copy 1198. Contained in publisher's red cloth solander case which is lightly speckled.

THE VICTORIAN ERA
Written by P. Anderson Graham.
Stock no. 1828463
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.

THE JUBILEE YEARS 1887-1897
Written by Roger Hudson.
Stock no. 1827054
Published by Folio Society. 1st thus1 1996. Very good condition.

Compiled by Hudson. Blue cloth spine, gilt title. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. A lovely copy contained in publisher's slipcase which is lightly scuffed, lightly marked and has a small patch of surface paper damage to one end.

THE JUBILEE YEARS 1887-1897
Written by Roger Hudson.
Stock no. 1325717
Published by Folio Society. 1st 1996. Slightly better than very good condition.

Compiled by Hudson. Blue cloth spine, gilt title. Pictorial boards. Colour and b/w illustrations. Minimal rubbing to corners and scuffing to covers. Contents fine. Slipcase is bumped at corners and faded to edge of front panel, mark to lower edge.

BLACK TOM ARNOLD OF RUGBY: THE MYTH AND THE MAN
Written by Terence Copley.
Stock no. 1824429
Published by Continuum. 1st 2002. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.

Terency Copley's lively and provoking biography of Thomas Arnold combines a study of his life with an examination of his influence as an educator, a theologian and a churchman. Black boards, red title to spine. A few b/w illustrations. ISBN: 0826457231. Black dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.