An Old Boy [Thomas Hughes] — Tom Brown&Apos;S School-Days

London, Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1907. Leather. The Oxford edition of this illustrated school story from English author Thomas Hughes. Oxford Edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece, ten plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. The story is set in the 1830s at Rugby School, an English public school which Hughes attended from 1834 to 1842. Following the adventures of Tom Brown, an energetic, stubborn, kind-hearted young boy, largely based on the author's brother George Hughes. Written by Thomas Hughes, an English lawyer, judge, politician and author most famous for this novel. Illustrated by Henry Matthew Brock, a British illustrator and landscape painter of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Bound in half calf with cloth covered boards. Externally, sound with rubbing to the extremities resulting in minor loss to the board tips. Fading to the spine with marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers with a school prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: H. M. Brock. Very Good .