Tom Brown’s School Days. By An Old Boy. Ninth Thousand.

  • [Hughes, Thomas]
  • Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. 1858

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Description

8vo, pp. viii, 420, [4, ads]. Later crushed red morocco by Hatchards, medieval-style blind darts to joints, spine divided by raised bands and lettered in gilt direct, top edge gilt. Light foxing to first and last leaves. Joints starting, spine a little sunned, boards a little marked, a touch of wear to extremities. Ownership inscriptions to flyleaf: S.M. Mellor, Rugby 1877-1879, J.E. Mellor, Rugby 1916-19 and H.M. Mellor Rugby 1917-20, all in the same hand, and W.J. Hughes, Rugby 1872-1876.

Notes

An early reprint of Hughes's 1857 Rugby School-set didactic novel, with locative provenance from two generations of the Mellor family, Rugbeians like the fictional Tom Brown.

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