This book tells the story of the formative years of London's world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum and the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in 1861.
Julius Bryant is Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum and author of Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909) (Lund Humphries, 2017).