Eminent Victorians
by Strachey, Lytton
“Discretion is not the better part of biography,” Lytton warns us, and it is with this motto that he paints his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. The caricatures – which represent the world of religion, philanthropy, education, and politics – expose the high Victorian myths, and reveal a slightly darker truth about the leading figures of the era.Some say that he led the world into the next generation, but that claim is essentially over inflated. What can be said is that the line between fiction and non-fiction was blurred. A new genre was born: literary biography.
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon
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Eminent Victorians. Strachey, Lytton. Published by The Folio Society, London, 1986. Follows the text of the first edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1918. 4to up to 12" tall. 272pp. with 12 pages of illustrations in colour and black and white. Green cloth boards with four photographic portraits within elaborate gilt scrolled borders; green endpapers. Housed in a green… Read more about this item Item Price
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EMINENT VICTORIANS: The Illustrated Edition
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London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good. 1938. Reprint; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. Some wear and tear to DJ with slight loss at spine extremities and light foxing to flies. ; Fifth printing, 1938. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Nice tight copy, no names inside. ; Phoenix Library; 302 pages; The life stories of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212.1)
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Good+ in Good dust jacket. [c.1962]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition presenting Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. "Chinese" Gordon. With a brief preface by the author. ---… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York, NY The Modern Library, 1931. Hardcover Very Good: shows indications of careful use: light wear to the extremities, but beginning to fray at the lower front corner tip; mild rubbing and faint soiling to the green cloth over boards; the pages have tanned a bit, due to aging; the binding is square and secure; the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
by Trollope, Anthony
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Panther Books Ltd: London, 1968. Soft. Fair. 12mo, 7. Fair. Acceptable reading copy, shows some signs of wear, some creasing to cover and spine. Mild page browned internally.623pp.
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightengale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon
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EMINENT VICTORIANS: Cardinal Manning - Florence Nightingale - Dr. Arnold - General Gordon
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, No date. Hardcover. 351p. No date but circa early 20th century. Purple cloth. A hardcover book in very good condition. A famous work of biography on some of the leading lights of the Victorian Age. Item Price
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon
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Folio Society, 1967. Hardcover. Good. 1967. No Edition Remarks. 286 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon. Red Cloth. Contains black & white illustrations and plates. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning… Read more about this item Item Price
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EMINENT VICTORIANS: The Illustrated Edition
by Strachey, Lytton
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NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989. First U.S. edition. Small quarto. 192 pp; numerous color & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dustjacket. Front free endpaper has vertical crease, top corner gently bumped, else VG/VG. Biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Item Price
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Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold
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San Diego New York London: Harvest Books/Harcourt Brace & Company, 1969. Paper. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Trade Paperback in Good Condition. Clean, unmarked, solid used book, light small scuff near upper edge of front cover, pages clean and unmarked, no creasing. The author exposes the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, General Gordon (Modern Library #212.1)
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New York: The Modern Library / Random House. Very Good with no dust jacket. [c.1946]. Hardcover. A Modern Library reprint edition featuring Lytton Strachey's four short biographies of leading English citizens living in the time of Queen Victoria: Cardinal Henry Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and Gen. "Chinese" Gordon. With a brief preface by the author.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eminent Victorians: The Illustrated Edition
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 351pp. Illustrated with six photographic plates. Owner name, hinges neatly strengthened, spine slightly cocked, boards slightly worn and stained, spine label tanned with small chips, good only. Biographical sketches with photographic plate reproductions of each subject. Item Price
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Eminent Victorians.
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London: Chatto & Windus,, 1918. Something had been punctured for good... First edition, first impression, of the author's most enduring work. Eminent Victorians made Strachey's fame for its witty and irreverent treatment of its subjects, four heroes of the Victorian Age: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon. Strachey's friend Bertrand Russell hailed the book as "brilliant,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon.
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London: Chatto and Windus, 1960. Finely bound example of the work that placed Strachey firmly in the top rank of biographers. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels,… Read more about this item Item Price
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