Boy's own paper.
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Category
Books
Date
1879 - 1967
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 3221447
Summary
Bibliographic description
v., plates: ill. (some fold.; some col.); 29cm. Holdings: Vol. I (1879) [2 copies];Vol III (1880-1881); Vol. IV (1881-1882); Vol. VII (1884-1885); Vol. VIII (1885-1886); Vol. IX (1886-1887); Vol. XI (1888-1889); Vol. XII (1889-1890); Vol. XIII (1890-1891); Vol. XIV (1891-1892); Vol. XVI (1893-1894); Vol. XXI (1898-1899); Vol. XXIX (1906-1907); Vol. XXX (1907-1908); Vol. XXXII (1909-1910); Vol. XL (1917-1918); Vol XLI (1918-1919); Vol. LIV (1931-1932); Vol. LVIII (1935-1936). Vol. [I] Copy 2 has 2 newspaper clippings with news about Boy's Own Paper jubilee. Vol. XIII has bookseller's ticket "Matthews & Brooke, Booksellers Bradford & Leeds". Vol. LVIII contains a booklabel with a list of the books of the Bible. Vol. LVIII contains loosely inserted leaflet of St Mary's Burnham Westgate Summer Exhibition Catalogue 2002. Provenance: Vol. [I] Copy 2, vol. III-IV; vol. VII-IX; vol. XI-XIII; vol. XXI contain booklabel, lettered "R. B. Graves"; vol. VII-VIII also inscribed "Alfred Edward Graves" and "A. E. Graves"; Vol. XVI is inscribed "I.A.L. Xmas 1894"; vol. XXXII is inscribed "W. Grattan Frank Xmas, 1910"; vol. XL is inscribed "John Davies Life with grandpa's love Xmas 1918"; Vol. LIV is inscribed "To Harold wishing you a happy Christmas from Uncle Alec 25-12-32". Binding: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century publisher's illustrated full colour cloth. Some vols have illustrated endpapers.
Makers and roles
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)