Description

Title: Tom Brown’s School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Cambridge

Published: 1857

Binding: Hardcover

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Signed: Signed by the Author

Number of Pages: 420

Catalogs: Juvenile Fiction, England, Campus Novels

: First edition; inscribed to Margaret E. Hughes, a presentation copy given to the author’s mother. Her bookplate is on the front pastedown, labeled Margaret E. Hughes, Donnington Priory, Berk. (Berkshire, now Oxfordshire). The inscription reads: “Mrs. Hughes, from the author,” and is dated April 27th, 1857. This volume is bound in the publisher’s tan calf, spine has raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, marbled endpapers. Contains some minor scuffing to the leather, superficial split to front inner hinge, but binding still firm and intact, peripheral browning to free endpapers, faint foxing to outer leaves, slight shelf wear at the bottom of the spine, generally clean. Tom Brown’s School Days is set primarily in the 1830s at Rugby School. It is a fictionalized depiction of the author’s, and his brother George’s, experiences at school. The character of George Arthur was modeled after Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, dean of Westminster, and the Rugby’s historical headmaster, Dr. Thomas Arnold, also appears as a character. The story was perhaps the most influential of early British school novels, and much imitated in later years. Hardcover. Condition: very good. 12mo, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in, 420 pages.