Thomas Hughes — Tom Brown at Oxford

London, Macmillan and Co. 1895 . Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated novel exploring the nineteenth century university experience by Thomas Hughes. A later edition, first published in serial form in Macmillan's Magazine in 1859.  In the publisher's original black cloth binding.  This copy illustrated with a frontispiece, and five plates by Sydney P. Hall.  A work by Thomas Hughes, an English barrister, judge, politician and author. The story follows the character of Tom Brown to a fictional St Ambrose's College, Oxford. The novel offers a vivid impression of university life in the mid nineteenth century.   In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, light shelf wear to the head and tail of the spine. Offsetting and light spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Sydney P. Hall. Very Good Indeed .