Rugby Tennessee
by HUGHES, Thomas
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Bryn Mawr,, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
1881. HUGHES, Thomas. Rugby Tennessee Being Some Account of the Settlement Founded on the Cumberland Plateau by the Board of Aid to Land Ownership, Limited, a Company Incorporated in England, and Authorised to Hold and Deal in Land by Act of the Legislature of the State of Tennessee...With a Report on the Soils of the Plateau by F. W. Keillebrew. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1881. 1st American ed. xi,168pp. Orig. cloth. Small stain to front board, else a near fine copy. Hughes, the author of Tom Brown's School Days, founded the Rugby settlement in Tennessee--named after his old school--to encourage young Englishman graduates of prominent English schools to take up a career in agriculture.
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- Bookseller
- George S. MacManus Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62988
- Title
- Rugby Tennessee
- Author
- HUGHES, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1881
- Keywords
- TNXX, AGRICULTURE, FINE/SOUTH AM
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George S. MacManus Company
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