Victorian ThingsAsa Briggs examines a wide range of Victorian objects and the way in which they express and reflect the preoccupations of Victorian society. He includes information on museums and exhibitions, commemorative artefacts, home furnishings and decoration, hats and other headgear, coal, matches, stamps, telephones and typewriters, spectacles and cameras. A whole world is recaptured for the modern reader, with surprising, delightful, amusing and amazing objects paraded throughout this book. |
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Contents
Preface | 9 |
Things as Emissaries | 45 |
The Great Victorian Collection | 52 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Victorian Things Penguin books Penguin history |
| Author | Asa Briggs |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1990 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Nov 2007 |
| ISBN | 0140126775, 9780140126778 |
| Length | 448 pages |
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