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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.

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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