The boy's playbook of science /
John Henry Pepper (1821-1900)
Category
Books
Date
1865 - 1885
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 3188103
Summary
Bibliographic description
xi, [1], 506, 2 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 8vo. Imperfect: copy lacks final advertisement leaf. Provenance: a school prize awarded to Eustace Wilding by Hillside School, West Malvern. Manuscript inscription "Eustace Wilding Third Form Prize July 1885" on recto of second free end-paper; gilt tooled inscription "Hillside School West Malvern" on upper board. Binding: nineteenth century gilt-tooled green calf; binder's stamp reading "Relfe Brothers London" in black ink on verso of first free end-paper; gilt tooled inscription "Hillside School West Malvern" on upper board; gilt tooling on edges of boards and turn-ins; gilt tooling and gilt tooled title label reading "Pepper's Playbook of science" on spine; marbled end-papers; text block edges marbled red, blue and yellow.
Makers and roles
John Henry Pepper (1821-1900), author Henry George Hine (Brighton 1811 - Hampstead 1895), illustrator Thomas Cradock Hepworth (d.1905), author