1996 1st Folio Society Edition Slipcase
A VICTORIAN TRIOLOGY (CITIES/THINGS/PEOPLE) THREE VOLUMES
A VICTORIAN TRILOGY
Victorian People • Victorian Cities • Victorian Things
A handsome three-volume Folio Society edition of Asa Briggs’s celebrated panorama of Victorian Britain, bringing together Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things in their first collected Folio Society presentation.
One of the most attractive modern editions of Briggs’s landmark studies of the nineteenth century, the set is bound in dark red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and individual ochre, pink and green pictorial accents to the boards and spines, complemented by coordinating decorative endpapers. The three volumes are housed together in the original dark red gilt-decorated slipcase.
This 1996 Folio Society edition is the first edition in this form / first Folio Society edition. Victorian People and Victorian Cities incorporate further authorial revisions to earlier revised texts, while Victorian Things was substantially revised for this edition. Each volume includes an author's Note on the Text.
By Asa Briggs
Format: Hardcover, Royal octavo (8vo 6 1⁄4 × 10 in 159 × 254 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English
Published By: The Folio Society, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - Fine volumes / Very Good slipcase – An attractive and very well-preserved set. The three books remain exceptionally clean and bright and appear unread or very lightly handled. Boards are clean and square, with the elaborate gilt and coloured blocking remaining vivid and well defined. Spines retain strong colour, with no significant fading apparent from the supplied photographs. Internally reported in fine, unread condition.
The original slipcase remains sound and attractive but shows visible evidence of storage and handling commensurate with age, including surface rubbing and scuffing to the panels, several pale surface marks, light wear to edges and some compression and creasing at the corners, most noticeably around the upper extremities. The slipcase remains structurally sound and continues to protect and present the volumes well.
Overall, a particularly attractive set in which the books themselves have survived in notably superior condition, with the principal signs of use confined to the original slipcase.
Collation: Victorian People – 261 pp.
Victorian Cities – 330 pp.
Victorian Things – 406 pp.
Total: 997 pp.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
Author Bio: Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016), was one of the leading British historians of the twentieth century and an influential interpreter of Victorian society. His scholarship ranged across social, cultural, urban and communications history, and he became particularly associated with the study of nineteenth-century Britain and the history of broadcasting.
Briggs combined academic scholarship with an unusually accessible approach to social history, examining not only political institutions and prominent individuals but also cities, technology, material culture and the changing texture of everyday life. His work on the Victorian period remains widely read for its breadth, clarity and ability to connect economic and social transformation with the experiences of individuals and communities.
He was created a life peer as Baron Briggs in 1976.
Illustrated By: Various historical sources
Illustrator Bio: No single illustrator is credited for the set. The volumes draw upon a wide range of period visual material, including paintings, prints, photographs and other contemporary imagery chosen to complement Briggs’s account of Victorian society, cities and material culture.
Synopsis: A Victorian Trilogy brings together three of Asa Briggs’s most important studies of nineteenth-century Britain, approaching the Victorian age through its people, its rapidly transforming cities and the objects and technologies that shaped everyday life.
In Victorian People, Briggs explores the personalities, institutions, ideas and controversies of the mid-Victorian period, particularly the years surrounding the Great Exhibition of 1851 through to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Through political figures, reformers, thinkers and social movements, he examines the beliefs and tensions that helped define an age preoccupied with progress, work, education, democracy and social improvement.
Victorian Cities turns to the extraordinary growth of urban Britain. Briggs examines the development and individual character of the great nineteenth-century cities, showing how industrialisation, commerce, transport, architecture, municipal government and population growth transformed both the physical landscape and the social organisation of Britain. The city emerges not simply as a setting for Victorian history but as one of its principal engines of change.
In Victorian Things, Briggs approaches the period through its material world. Communications, consumer goods, domestic objects, technology, furnishings, clothing and the rapidly expanding universe of manufactured things become evidence for profound changes in social behaviour and expectations. The volume demonstrates how apparently ordinary objects can illuminate the economic, technological and cultural forces reshaping Victorian life.
Taken together, the trilogy forms an unusually broad and engaging portrait of Victorian Britain: its leading personalities and ideas, the urban environments in which millions increasingly lived, and the material objects through which nineteenth-century modernity was experienced.
A substantial and visually impressive Folio Society production, particularly appealing to collectors of British social history, Victorian studies and finely produced illustrated editions.
SKU: BTETM0002254
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 30, L: 30, W: 30 (Units: cm), W: 5Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
1996 1st Folio Society Edition Slipcase
A VICTORIAN TRIOLOGY (CITIES/THINGS/PEOPLE) THREE VOLUMES
A VICTORIAN TRILOGY
Victorian People • Victorian Cities • Victorian Things
A handsome three-volume Folio Society edition of Asa Briggs’s celebrated panorama of Victorian Britain, bringing together Victorian People, Victorian Cities and Victorian Things in their first collected Folio Society presentation.
One of the most attractive modern editions of Briggs’s landmark studies of the nineteenth century, the set is bound in dark red cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and individual ochre, pink and green pictorial accents to the boards and spines, complemented by coordinating decorative endpapers. The three volumes are housed together in the original dark red gilt-decorated slipcase.
This 1996 Folio Society edition is the first edition in this form / first Folio Society edition. Victorian People and Victorian Cities incorporate further authorial revisions to earlier revised texts, while Victorian Things was substantially revised for this edition. Each volume includes an author's Note on the Text.
By Asa Briggs
Format: Hardcover, Royal octavo (8vo 6 1⁄4 × 10 in 159 × 254 mm )
Note: Binding/size selection follows standard bibliographic conventions and is approximate; exact measurements may vary.
Language: English
Published By: The Folio Society, London
Condition Report:
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Very Good - Fine volumes / Very Good slipcase – An attractive and very well-preserved set. The three books remain exceptionally clean and bright and appear unread or very lightly handled. Boards are clean and square, with the elaborate gilt and coloured blocking remaining vivid and well defined. Spines retain strong colour, with no significant fading apparent from the supplied photographs. Internally reported in fine, unread condition.
The original slipcase remains sound and attractive but shows visible evidence of storage and handling commensurate with age, including surface rubbing and scuffing to the panels, several pale surface marks, light wear to edges and some compression and creasing at the corners, most noticeably around the upper extremities. The slipcase remains structurally sound and continues to protect and present the volumes well.
Overall, a particularly attractive set in which the books themselves have survived in notably superior condition, with the principal signs of use confined to the original slipcase.
Collation: Victorian People – 261 pp.
Victorian Cities – 330 pp.
Victorian Things – 406 pp.
Total: 997 pp.
Please see Photos as part of condition report.
Author Bio: Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs (7 May 1921 – 15 March 2016), was one of the leading British historians of the twentieth century and an influential interpreter of Victorian society. His scholarship ranged across social, cultural, urban and communications history, and he became particularly associated with the study of nineteenth-century Britain and the history of broadcasting.
Briggs combined academic scholarship with an unusually accessible approach to social history, examining not only political institutions and prominent individuals but also cities, technology, material culture and the changing texture of everyday life. His work on the Victorian period remains widely read for its breadth, clarity and ability to connect economic and social transformation with the experiences of individuals and communities.
He was created a life peer as Baron Briggs in 1976.
Illustrated By: Various historical sources
Illustrator Bio: No single illustrator is credited for the set. The volumes draw upon a wide range of period visual material, including paintings, prints, photographs and other contemporary imagery chosen to complement Briggs’s account of Victorian society, cities and material culture.
Synopsis: A Victorian Trilogy brings together three of Asa Briggs’s most important studies of nineteenth-century Britain, approaching the Victorian age through its people, its rapidly transforming cities and the objects and technologies that shaped everyday life.
In Victorian People, Briggs explores the personalities, institutions, ideas and controversies of the mid-Victorian period, particularly the years surrounding the Great Exhibition of 1851 through to the Second Reform Act of 1867. Through political figures, reformers, thinkers and social movements, he examines the beliefs and tensions that helped define an age preoccupied with progress, work, education, democracy and social improvement.
Victorian Cities turns to the extraordinary growth of urban Britain. Briggs examines the development and individual character of the great nineteenth-century cities, showing how industrialisation, commerce, transport, architecture, municipal government and population growth transformed both the physical landscape and the social organisation of Britain. The city emerges not simply as a setting for Victorian history but as one of its principal engines of change.
In Victorian Things, Briggs approaches the period through its material world. Communications, consumer goods, domestic objects, technology, furnishings, clothing and the rapidly expanding universe of manufactured things become evidence for profound changes in social behaviour and expectations. The volume demonstrates how apparently ordinary objects can illuminate the economic, technological and cultural forces reshaping Victorian life.
Taken together, the trilogy forms an unusually broad and engaging portrait of Victorian Britain: its leading personalities and ideas, the urban environments in which millions increasingly lived, and the material objects through which nineteenth-century modernity was experienced.
A substantial and visually impressive Folio Society production, particularly appealing to collectors of British social history, Victorian studies and finely produced illustrated editions.
SKU: BTETM0002254
Shipping Info: Approximate Package Dimensions H: 30, L: 30, W: 30 (Units: cm), W: 5Kg
Tracked Shipping, Insurance Coverage as per Customer Request
Slipcase Very good, Book in fine unread condition
