Lytton Strachey — Queen Victoria

London, Chatto & Windus, 1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated biography of English Queen, Victoria. First edition. This work was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight plates. Collated complete. A biographical study of Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland whose reign of sixty-three years was longer than those of any of her predecessors. The Victorian era was a period of industrial, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. Written by Giles Lytton Strachey, an English writer, critic, and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group who established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with scattered spotting throughout. Age toning and the odd contemporary ink inscription to the endpapers. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .