Cloth binding for Hughes’s ‘Tom Brown’s Schooldays’

Arthur Hughes

1869

Cloth binding gilt

7¾ x 5¾ inches

This is an unsigned binding by Arthur Hughes, who also illustrated the book in black and white. The roundel on the front cover is an original design in gilt. Hughes provided another motif for the back-strip. This ‘New Edition’ is now extremely rare.

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