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Victorian Things [Hardcover]

Asa Briggs (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0226074838 | ISBN-13: 978-0226074832 | Publication Date: January 26, 1989 | Edition: 1

"No Victorianist, however well read, could fail to learn something from this book. It is a veritable plum pudding, bursting with interesting information and experience."—Christopher A. Kent, Victorian Periodicals Review

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Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (January 26, 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226074838
ISBN-13: 978-0226074832
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,044,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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carboniferous capitalism, exhibition sequence, halfpenny stamp, adhesive postage stamps, match tax, penny black, rubbish theory, postal reform, coal question, penny postage, adhesive stamps

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Queen Victoria, United States, New York, Illustrated London News, Crimean War, Prince Albert, Victorian Britain, Victorian England, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cassell's Book of the Household, Society of Arts, Great Britain, Household Words, Select Committee, House of Commons, Prince of Wales, Royal Commission, United Kingdom, East End, Rowland Hill, Henry Cole, Sir William, William Morris, Daily Telegraph, Strand Magazine

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The Deceivers: Art Forgery And Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Aviva Briefel on page 16, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War by Christopher Howe on page 100, page 109, and Back Matter
Victorian Houses and their Details by Helen Long BA Hons History and History of Art MA PhD - Brighton University on page 19, page 110, and page
The Vital Landscape: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain by William M. Taylor in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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