Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by William Quiller Orchardson, William Powell Frith and John Everett Millais. The Victorian age told through the queen's own life - the accession at eighteen, Albert, the Great Exhibition, the widowhood and the jubilees. Tappan wrote history for young readers and this appeared while the reign was still in living memory. This edition adds sixty plates after John Varley, Arthur Gaskin, John Hassell and others, plus nine illustrations restored and coloured.