Dear Osborne. Queen Victoria's Family Life in the Isle of Wight

London England: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Hardback. First Edition. Top edge of cloth slightly sunned. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. The first full-length about Osborne House, Queen Victoria's home in the Isle of Wight. 'Dear Osborne - a perfect Paradise', wrote Queen Victoria, 'which I deeply grive to leave'. Appropriately enought, it was at Osborne, where she and her husband stood hand in hand listening to the nightingales, the home she loved best of all, that in 1901 she died. Osborne House has a special poignancy; no other Royal house has been built by, and lived in, soley by one Monarch, and in no toehr Royal residence is access offered to the privat Apartments. From Queen Victoria's death until 1921, Osborne was a Royal Naval College. Today, as the King Edward VII Convalescent Home, it is open to officers of the services and of the civil service. Illustrated. 166 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.