The first book to consider the V&A as a work of art in itself and to present a wide variety of visual material relating to the Museum's 19th-century interiors, much of it previously unpublished.
This unique history brings together more than 150 spectacular objects from the National Art Library's collection of literature, prints, drawings and photographs.
This book tells the storyof the formative years of London’s world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museumand the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the GreatExhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in 1861.