Smiles, Samuel: A Boy's Voyage Round the World; including a Residence in Victoria, and a Journey by Rail across North America. , London: John Murray Tenth Thousand 1877.

xv+304 pp. illustrated, in a school prize binding, contemporary polished calf with six panelled spine with raised bandsand decorative gilt panels, original red and gilt spine label, gilt motto on front board with gilt edgelining to boards, marbled foreedges and endpapers. The front pastedown has the prize bookplate for one of the country's major Independent Schools, "Nicholas College St Saviour's Ardingly, Special History Prize June 1878 to F. G. Maturin." This may be Frederick Gray maturin, b.17.5.1863. The Maturin family is probably most famous for the clergyman novelist Charles Maturin, a relation of Oscar Wilde. The book shows a little rubbing but is in very good condition. (Book ref. 12943)  £45.00

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