Buckingham Palace: Official Souvenir Guide [Paperback]

Jonathan Marsden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 25, 2006

An introduction to the Palace today which includes stories of its previous and current occupants, a history of its building and architecture, and an illustrated tour of the State Rooms and their continents.

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About the Author

Jonathan Marsden is the Director of the Royal Collection.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Royal Collection Enterprises Ltd (August 25, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1902163958
• ISBN-13: 978-1902163956
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 7.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,066,715 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Travel > Europe > Great Britain > General

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buckingham Palace souvenier book, January 23, 2008

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tenthumbs "tenthumbs" (Quincy, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Buckingham Palace: Official Souvenir Guide (Paperback)

Great book, especially since photography is not allowed inside the Palace; much less expensive here than if I had purchased it at Buckingham Palace!!

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4.0 out of 5 stars W O N D E R F U L......B U T....., April 11, 2011

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Patricia "A Reader" (Queens, New York, and Denver, Co, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buckingham Palace: Official Souvenir Guide (Paperback)

The Spectacularly beautiful, but admirably restrained cover of 'BUCKINGHAM PALACE: OFFICIAL SOUVENIR GUIDE", promises great things inside. And indeed there are!

Wonderful paper-stock, with coloured photographs and informative text. Only -- for me, there weren't ENOUGH pictures, and the pictures were way too tiny to see the details within them. The text likewise was too small. If it is too expensive to altogether replace this book with one having more pictures, bigger pictures, and bigger text, may I respectfully suggest that such a book STILL be produced, and that the current one ALSO continue to be produced, so that people buying this official and wonderful souvenir might have a choice. Some might go for the present,

smaller book. But as for myself, I would prefer the larger version, with more and larger photographs, and larger sized text. Yes, I already own the present version....but would SO like to purchase an enlarged edition, as well!

4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of details, but could be improved, October 7, 2011

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LD (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Buckingham Palace: Official Souvenir Guide (Paperback)

Buckingham Palace is not on the level of other palaces like the Catherine in St Petersburg, the Habsburg Schonbrunn, the Prince Bishop's in Wurzburg, Versailles, etc. The guidebook does provide a lot of history with photos and drawings. Had the layout followed the format of the Windsor Castle guidebook it would have been much better. Fortunately the writers did provide lists of the items in each room (pictures, furniture, porcelain, etc).

I wish that less white blank space existed on many of the pages and that the photos had been larger. It would have been interesting to see the living quarters and guest rooms. I think the book is worth $4-10.