The Victorian Nursery Book
By Anthony & Peter Miall 
Preloved, hardcovers book with dust jacket, withdrawn library book. Full of beautiful illustrations.
Who but the Victorians could have created and elaborated that splendid and eminently characteristic institution - the nursery? Here, in the little world at the top of the house, Victorian children were surrounded by their own books, games, toys, music, décor and furniture, and experienced a routine uniquely their own, all under the watchful eye of their nurse. Here they were primed with the accomplishments so necessary to fit them for that other world downstairs, which they would enter at last when the long days of childhood were over.
In this delightful collection of pictures and writings from the period, by turns poignant, amusing and nostalgic,
Antony and Peter Miall have recreated the sheltered and genteel atmosphere which permeated the life of the middle-class Victorian child. They explore every facet of this very special, child-centred existence - preparations for the new baby, life in the nursery and schoolroom, the trappings of the nursery itself and the industry that supplied them, the vital role of the nanny and governess - and all the hazards, the trials and the pleasures, of growing up in that far-off and privileged world.