Bonnet and Shawl: An Album

204pp, six black and white photographic plates. Green cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on front and spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine ends. Top text block edge dusty, remaining edges starting to tan. Free endpapers tanning, prelims foxing. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket sun-faded, has 2cm closed tear at spine head at front hinge, light shelf wear and chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. Biographies of the wives of eminent Victorians Real - (Carlyle, Gladstone, Arnold, Disraeli, Tennyson and Palmerston) and Ideal - (James, Swinburne, de Goncourt).