High Victorian Design

Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 300 pages. 344 illustrations, each with descriptive text. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Covers the years 1850 to about 1870, the most productive period for Victorian architects, and the age during which a whole range of arts, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and book-binding, took on a new vigor.