Tom Brown's School Days
School Days at Rugby
Vintage from the 1800s
Author's Edition
By An Old Boy (Thomas Hughes)
Dedicated to Mrs. Arnold, of Fox Howe
Published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin & Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
With 9 full-color illustrations including frontispiece.
The hero, Tom Brown, is a star in the game established at Rugby School in the north of England, now known as rugby. Hughes is associated with the term "Muscular Christianity" which is thought to have been first used in a review of Charles Kingsley's novel Two Years Ago, in 1857; b&w frontispiece, 405 pp, b&w illus throughout. Illustrated from designs by Larkin G. Mead, Jr. Maroon cloth covers with gilt and black band at top of front cover and gilt title; gilt floral bands at top and base of spine, and gilt title at spine.
In good shape for its age. A nice addtion to your vintage book collection, as well as a good read!
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