Queen Victoria.

STRACHEY, Lytton.

Item Number: 129833

London: Chatto and Windus, 1955.

Finely bound example of Strachey’s award-winning biography. 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, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition.

A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, Giles Lytton Strachey established a new form of biography in the early 19th century in which psychological insight and sympathy were uniquely combined with irreverence and wit. First published in 1921, his biography of Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.