Tom Brown's School Days / Thomas Hughes

Name/Title

Tom Brown's School Days / Thomas Hughes

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.109

Description

418 pages. Illustrations, 1 tissue guarded frontis preceding the title page. New Edition- Beautifully Illustrated. Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Endowed public schools (Great Britain), 1880s, Fiction

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Width

5 in

Book Details

Author

Thomas Hughes

Edition

New

Publisher

J.W. Lovell

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

circa 1880

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Gold Band Titles

Binding Notes

Mustard cloth with elaborate black stamping to cover and spine of a bordered Asian-inspired leaf, branch, and flower design with a diagonal orientation. Urns with flowers, an owl, and a gilt stamped title ribbon band to the cover. Cover stamping fills the entire board. and spine. Spine has a wide title band stamped in gilt. Yellow endpapers.

Notes

No publication date.

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Country

England