Tom Brown's school-days / by an old boy ; with illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan.
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896)
Category
Books
Date
1897
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085518
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, [1], 312 p. : ill. ; 8vo. Pencil checkmark on front free endpaper verso. Pencil letters on rear free endpaper: "dt". Pencil number on rear free endpaper: "265". Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy, price: £24. Provenance: Manuscript inscription (washed out) on half-title: "Henry Richmond / from his friend / John F. Elliott. / 16th Septr. 1898." Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century Kelliegram binding: full green morocco; single gilt fillet to form an outer border on boards; inlaid black, grey and brown morocco picture on upper board: schoolmaster and schoolboy; five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Tom Brown's school-days', 'Hughes' and '1897'; gilt roll on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; brown ribbon marker. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Kelly & Sons. London'. Gilt stamps on rear turn-in: 'Kelliegram binding' and 'London'.
Makers and roles
Thomas Hughes (1822-1896), author Edmund Joseph Sullivan (London 1869 - London 1933), illustrator