Tom Brown's school-days / by Thomas Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896.

Contributor:

American Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories.

Boarding schools--England--Juvenile fiction.

Boarding schools.

England--Juvenile fiction.

England.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1900.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1900.

Physical Description:

xvi, 339 p., [1] leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 22cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1900.

Summary:

Recounts the adventures of a young English boy at Rugby School in the early nineteenth century.

Contents:

The brown family

The "veast"

Sundry wars and alliances

The stage-coach

Rugby and football

After the match

Settling to the collar

The war of independence

A chapter of accidents

Part II - How the tide turned

The new boy

Arthur makes a friend

The bird-fanciers

The fight

Fever in the school

Harry East's dilemmas and deliverances

Tom Browns last match

Finis.

Notes:

Engraved t.p. in red and black, running title underscored in red; ornamental red initials.

Decorations signed "S.L. Busha" or "S.B."

Includes pref. to 6th ed.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Bound in taupe cloth with floral sketching on the edges in black and red and title in black.

Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mr. & Mrs. Wm. F. Machold.

Athenaeum copy: Ownership stamp on front pastedown: "William F. MacHold, 6820 Quincy St., Germantown, Phila., PA."

Athenaeum copy: Front endpaper stamped: "Received Oct 9 1964 The Athenaeum"

OCLC:

3134475