HUGHES, THOMAS. Tom Brown's School Days, 1857, blue morocco gilt , t.e.g., others uncut, original blue cloth side bound in, by Zaehnsdorf, front cover detached , half-title, advertisement leaf, 24 pp. of advertisements at end dated February 1857. Laid in: Autograph letter signed from Hughes to a Mr. Cavell, Chester, 20 April 1888, 1 1/4 pages, 8vo, integral blank leaf , on business matters. E. Hubert Litchfield bookplate; The Scouring of the White Horse, 1859, red morocco gilt, g.e., original blue cloth gilt covers, including spine, bound in, by Root , illustrations by Richard Doyle half-title, 16-pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated 1858. Tipped in: Autograph letter signed from Hughes to "Dear Akerman," Cromer, Norfolk, 5 October 1857, 3 pages, large 8vo, folded over at bottom and fore-edges, a blank corner chipped, a slight fold tear , a fine literary letter entirely about the writing of The Scouring of the White Horse (Akerman apparently contributed ballads and humor to the work): "...Atkins & all the fold down there would I know like very much to get a little book about it, half official & historical, & the rest (to carry it off) any measure of fun & nonsense we can run together. I have begun it, the title might be 'The Scouring of the White Horse 1857'...we can weave in your ballads & any old bits of country songs...I have done a couple of chapters..."; Tom Brown at Oxford, 1861, 3 vols., original blue cloth, extremities rubbed, endpapers cracked at two inner hinges, blue half morocco slipcase. Tipped or laid in: (1) Autograph manuscript signed by Hughes, Chester, March 1883, 1 page, 18mo , a 16-line quotation from the Arthur Hugh Clough poem beginning "Say not the struggle nought availeth..."; (2) Autograph letter signed from Hughes to a Mr. Moran [London] 28 January 1868, 1 page 8vo : "I want copies of Bemis's pamphlets & any other good papers official or otherwise on that side of the Alabama question which are not printed in our blue books..." John Stuart Groves bookplate; all Cambridge, together 5 vols., 8vo, plus 4 autograph items , FIRST EDITIONS. (9)
HUGHES, THOMAS. Tom Brown's School Days, 1857, blue morocco gilt , t.e.g., others uncut, original blue cloth side bound in, by Zaehnsdorf, front cover detached , half-title, advertisement leaf, 24 pp. of advertisements at end dated February 1857. Laid in: Autograph letter signed from Hughes to a Mr. Cavell, Chester, 20 April 1888, 1 1/4 pages, 8vo, integral blank leaf , on business matters. E. Hubert Litchfield bookplate; The Scouring of the White Horse, 1859, red morocco gilt, g.e., original blue cloth gilt covers, including spine, bound in, by Root , illustrations by Richard Doyle half-title, 16-pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated 1858. Tipped in: Autograph letter signed from Hughes to "Dear Akerman," Cromer, Norfolk, 5 October 1857, 3 pages, large 8vo, folded over at bottom and fore-edges, a blank corner chipped, a slight fold tear , a fine literary letter entirely about the writing of The Scouring of the White Horse (Akerman apparently contributed ballads and humor to the work): "...Atkins & all the fold down there would I know like very much to get a little book about it, half official & historical, & the rest (to carry it off) any measure of fun & nonsense we can run together. I have begun it, the title might be 'The Scouring of the White Horse 1857'...we can weave in your ballads & any old bits of country songs...I have done a couple of chapters..."; Tom Brown at Oxford, 1861, 3 vols., original blue cloth, extremities rubbed, endpapers cracked at two inner hinges, blue half morocco slipcase. Tipped or laid in: (1) Autograph manuscript signed by Hughes, Chester, March 1883, 1 page, 18mo , a 16-line quotation from the Arthur Hugh Clough poem beginning "Say not the struggle nought availeth..."; (2) Autograph letter signed from Hughes to a Mr. Moran [London] 28 January 1868, 1 page 8vo : "I want copies of Bemis's pamphlets & any other good papers official or otherwise on that side of the Alabama question which are not printed in our blue books..." John Stuart Groves bookplate; all Cambridge, together 5 vols., 8vo, plus 4 autograph items , FIRST EDITIONS. (9)
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