Book Details
| Author: | Hope, Ascott R.: |
| Title: | My Schoolboy Friends: A Story of Whitminster Grammar School. |
| Published: | Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1871. |
| Classification: | Catalogue 09 - Children's |
| Description: | Third edition, With Illustrations. 354 pp + 14 pp ads. A book of school life illustrating vividly "the pluck, forwardness, buoyancy, honesty, fun and mischief so characteristic of healthy boys". Written with the keen observation of a frank and good schoolmaster. Frontispiece, & 6 other b/w plates. Brown eps. previous owner's inscription on half title dated 1871. A few spots of light browning on prelims and last few pages. Text very clean. Rear hinge beginning to crack internally. Green bevelled cloth boards with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Holly decoration on spine vignette of fairy on flower on front board. All edges gilt. Corners bumped and lightly rubbed. Boards lightly faded in patches. Overall condition VG. |
| Book Number: | #7079 |
| Price: | € 75.00 |
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