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Schools & Universities
ROBERT SOMERVELL, Faber & Faber, 1935; “Robert Somervell for Thirty-Three Years Assistant Master and Bursar at Harrow School, Chapters of Autobiography, Edited With Additional Material By His Sons”; illus.; xv+120pp; 8vo; orig. blue cloth gilt, a firm copy. £5.00
A HISTORY OF BEDFORD COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 1849-1937, Margaret J. Tuke, Oxford University Press, 1939; illustrated with 12 plates; 5 fold-out charts; index; xvi+364pp; 8vo; orig. gilt dec. cloth, a firm copy, slightly marked. £5.00
WILLINGLY TO SCHOOL: A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S EDUCATION, Mary Cathcart Borer, Lutterworth Press, 1976; illus. with 12 plates; index; 319pp; 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, dust-jacket, lightly used. £5.00
SCHOOLS 1929, 6th Edition, publ. Truman & Knightly; “The Most Complete Directory of Schools in Great Britain, Arranged in Order of Countries. Including statistical information regarding the recognised public schools for boys and a supplementary list of schools on the continent receiving English and American pupils”; arranged by counties; illus. with numerous photographs; fold-out map; 768pp; small 8vo; top edge and fore-edge spotted, orig. cloth gilt, a sound copy. £5.00
CHEAM SCHOOL FROM 1645, Edward.Peel, Gloucester, 1974; colour frontispiece and many other black and white illustrations; index; xiv+330pp; 8vo; orig. cloth, without dust-jacket, otherwise a good, firm copy. £5.00
THE SEDBERGHIAN, Nos. 1 to 12, 1879-1882; Sedbergh School’s magazine; including school lists and cricket teams; 8vo; bound in half-calf, spine decorated in gilt with red label, marbled sides, lightly used, an attractive volume. £20.00
THE LIFE OF DR. ARNOLD (LATE HEAD MASTER OF RUGBY SCHOOL), Emma Jane Worboise, Wm. Isbister Ltd., 1885; viii+280pp; small 8vo; orig. gilt dec. brown cloth, a bright copy, some wear on hinges. £7.00
IN THE DAYS OF MISS BEALE: A STUDY OF HER WORK AND INFLUENCE, F.C. Steadman, 1931; about the highly esteemed teacher at Cheltenham Ladies’ College; illus. with 29 plates and various line drawings, etc.; index of persons and places; xv+194pp; 4to; orig. blue cloth, a sound copy, upper cover slightly marked. £8.00
THE HISTORY OF MILL HILL SCHOOL 1807-1923, Norman G. Brett-James, Reigate, 1923, with 80 illustrations; lists of masters, etc.; index; xv+504pp; 8vo; orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, top edge gilt, cloth a bit marked, otherwise a firm copy, without dust-wrapper. £10.00
CHARTERHOUSE REGISTER 1872 - 1900, printed and published by R.B. Stedman, Godalming, 1904; with biographical notes and index; xv+594pp; small 4to; orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, a very good copy. £12.00
CLIFTON COLLEGE REGISTER, 1862 TO 1962, centenary edn, 1962; biographical notes; index to Cliftonians; lx+507pp; 8vo; a leaf creased and torn without loss, orig. gilt dec. blue cloth, a good, firm copy, without dust-jacket. £11.00
ALUMNI FELSTEDIENSES, ed. G. J. Hornsby Wright, Felsted, 1903; “ Being a List of Boys Entered at Felsted School From Its Foundation to May, 1903”; with biographical notes; index; vii+235pp; small 8vo; orig. red cloth gilt, a good, firm copy, very brief library marks on front fixed endpaper. £15.00
HANDBOOK TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford Univ. Press, 1964; illus. with 23 plates, 4 maps/plans; x+484pp; small 8vo; orig. gilt dec. navy cloth, a firm volume, without dust-jacket. £4.00
THE LORETTO REGISTER 1914 TO 1986, publ. Foulis Books, 1987; biographical notes; illus.; index; xli+421pp; 8vo; orig. gilt dec. red cloth, a firm, clean copy. £6.00
WELLINGTON COLLEGE REGISTER, 8th edn., January 1859 – December 1962, Old Wellingtonian Society, 1965; illus.; biographical notes; index; xii+436+lxxxpp; 8vo; orig. gilt dec. red cloth, firm volume, a little rubbed. £6.00
HISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, CAMBRIDGE, T. Baker, 2 vols., Cambridge Univ. Press, 1869; index; index to the registers; lx+554+xxvi, xxxii+555-1235pp; 8vo; stitching weak near middle of Vol. 1, very brief internal library marks, orig. gilt dec. brown cloth, a little wear on bindings. £10.00
WINCHESTER COLLEGE: A REGISTER FOR THE YEARS 1915-1960, ed. L.H. Lamb, Winchester, 1974; biographical notes; index; xi+683pp; 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, sound copy. £8.00
A HISTORY OF CATERHAM SCHOOL, H. Stafford, Shrewsbury, 1945; 13 illus.; 111pp; 8vo; orig. cloth, firm copy, no dust-jacket. £9.00
THE BEST TYPE OF GIRL, Gillian Avery, Andre Deutsch, London, 1991; “A History of Girls' Independent Schools”; illustrated with 50 black and white photographs; xiii+410pp; 8vo; orig. cloth gilt, dust-jacket, very lightly used. £7.00
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