This book, copyrighted twice in 1993, by the photographer, Tim Fields, and the text authors, would be a wonderful coffee table book.  It has fantastic photographs.  Beyond that, as you see on the inside of the book jacket, it describes aspects of what life was really like in Victorian Times in information gleaned from the American  houses

  I find it fascinating to learn about.

With widespread consumerism first available at this time, Victorian times were definitely antecedent to the world we know today.   I admire the vigor of Victorian times, and the strong sense of inquiry.  I regret that these qualities have led us to global warming and climate change.   Now we have to find ways to continue the good aspects, while learning to live within the annual energy budget granted to us by the sun, quite a tall order.  I want to use the good qualities of mankind which produced those times,  in order to help us deal with climate change, and other issues of our times in 2014.

This is a Rosenberg Library book.