Victorian Bloomsbury by Rosemary Ashton

Rosemary Ashton | Yale University Press | 2012 | First Edition, First Printing | Hardcover with Dust Jacket

A beautifully preserved first edition of Rosemary Ashton’s Victorian Bloomsbury, an engaging history of one of London’s most important intellectual neighborhoods before the emergence of the famous twentieth-century Bloomsbury Group.

Ashton explores nineteenth-century Bloomsbury as a gathering place for writers, reformers, educators, physicians, dissenters, and other figures who helped shape Victorian intellectual and cultural life. Moving through the streets, squares, institutions, and personalities of the neighborhood, the book combines social, literary, architectural, and London history.

Published by Yale University Press in 2012, this copy is a first edition, first printing, confirmed by the complete number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.