Hardcover
1903 · London
by BULWER-LYTTON, Edward
London: James Nisbet & Co, 1903. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Illustrations by Lancelot Speed. Prize binding in contemporary tree calf with the Boston house school crest stamped in gold on the front board, gilt spine divided into six panels with brown titling label, gold tooling on the edges of the boards, turn-ins stamped in blind, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Bookseller's ticket "J. Pulsford, The Royal Library" on back pastedown. Owner's name: "Ethel Hayes Sadler, Senior French, July 1904" on front fly leaf. Rubbing to the joints and edges of the boards, the front joint is split with the front board holding firm, else very good. The Boston house School for Girls, founded in Chiswick in 1827, was the inspiration for Miss Pinkerton's Academy in Thackeray's Vanity Fair. The school moved to Eastbourne in the late 19th century.
(Inventory #: 439008)