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Griffith and Farran, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 157 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Clean pages and illustrations with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.
Harry at School : A Story for Boys. by Marryat, Emilia - 1862
by Marryat, Emilia
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Harry at School : A Story for Boys.
by Marryat, Emilia
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- very good
- Hardcover
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London: Griffith and Farran, 1862. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. John Absolon. 95 + 32 page catalogue at rear. Purple blind-stamped, gilt decoration and lettering to cover and spine, 4 hand-colored illustrations. Very light cornerwear, and slight fading to upper front board and spine, tiny chip to front gilt, contents very mildly age-toned, clean and all handcolored illustrations are bright and fresh-looking, binder's ticket of Burn, Kirby St, on rear pastedown. A nicely preserved book.
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- Illustrator John Absolon
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Griffith and Farran
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1862
- Keywords Juvenile
- Size 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Harry At School: A Story For Boys
by Emilia Marryat
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- Hardcover
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Harry at School: A Story for Boys (1862)
by Emilia Marryat
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- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781164665540 / 1164665545
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Harry at School;: A Story for Boys ...
by MARRYAT, Emilia
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- FIRST EDITION.
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8vo, pp. 95, [1] blank, 32 advertisements; with frontispiece and three engraved plates, all coloured by hand; some toning to paper, otherwise a clean copy throughout; bound in the publisher's original blue blindstamped cloth, spine and upper board decorated in gilt, some light sunning and rubbing, but overall a very good copy, with binders ticket on rear pastedown, and curious French booksellers label on front free endpaper.Scarce first edition of this 'Story for Boys' by Emilia Marryat, '(Daughter of the late Captain Marryat)', containing all the usual ingredients to discourage children from doing wrong, and engendering good behaviour.
The story, accompanied by four illustrations by John Absolon, all attractively hand-coloured, centres around Harry Blake, a good boy, sent to boarding school when his parents go overseas, so his mother can recover her health. Things soon begin to go wrong for him, and he forgets the good principles instilled in him by his parents, instead becoming idle and insolent,… Read More
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