Hardcover
1857 · Cambridge
by Hughes, Thomas
Cambridge: Macmillan & Co, 1857. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good. 420 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. An historic novel of boarding school days by an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for this effort, a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. Later, he founded a settlement in America??"Rugby, Tennessee??"which was designed as an experiment in? utopian? living for the younger sons of the English gentry. 24 pages of adverts at rear. Small bookseller label of W. Hunt of Ipswitch. Firm, clean copy. SADLEIR 1234. WOLFF 3331. (Inventory #: 21679)