Tom Brown At Oxford A Sequel to "School Days At Rugby"
by Thomas Hughes
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-105: Ticknor & Fields. Good+. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Ticknor & Fields Boston 1862 & 1861, 1862. 2 vols: Vol. I: iv, 8-362 pgs, Vol. II: viii, 363-733 pgs. Illustrated with black & white frontis. First US Edition/First Printing. Bound in pebbled purple cloth with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are sunned along the spine). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing present to the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Tom Brown's School Days was tremendously influential on the genre of British school novels, which began in the 19th century, it is one of the few still in print from its time. Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) was an English lawyer and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857). A sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford is a novel by Thomas Hughes, first published in serial form in Macmillan's Magazine in 1859. It was published in two volumes in book form in 1861. It is a sequel to the better-known Tom Brown's School Days. The story follows the character of Tom Brown to fictional St Ambrose's College, Oxford. E-105; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Last Exit Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61694
- Title
- Tom Brown At Oxford A Sequel to "School Days At Rugby"
- Author
- Thomas Hughes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- E-105
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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