PERIOD PIECE : A Victorian Childhood (Charles Darwin's Grand-Daughter)

Raverat, Gwen

ISBN 10: 1904555128 / ISBN 13: 9781904555124

Edité par Clear Press Ltd, Bath, Somerset, 2003

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This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in red cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Gwen Raverat, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, described Period Piece, her classic memoir of an English childhood in the late 19th century, as a drawing of the world when I was young. The observations of the small incidents in her life, recorded here both in pen portraits and line drawings, reveal an artist?s careful eye. Vividly evoking a bygone era, it is a shrewd, touching and comic portrait of her childhood, her eccentric relations and of Cambridge society and university. Since she was renowned as a book illustrator, it is not surprising that her line drawings for Period Piece are a masterpiece of controlled wit and charm all on their own. Ref UUU 2.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: PERIOD PIECE : A Victorian Childhood (Charles Darwin's Grand-Daughter)
• Éditeur: Clear Press Ltd, Bath, Somerset
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1904555128
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781904555124
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Thus
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New