° ° Antiquarian books and manuscript school records – The Gr...

° ° Antiquarian books and manuscript school records – The Grove School, Highgate; Homer, Dyer, Boswell and Prescott – 8 volumes, 19th and early 20th century mixed collection of eight volumes, comprising: The Grove School, Highgate. Two early 20th-century manuscript school record books containing extensive handwritten accounts of school activities, societies, debates, theatrical performances, pupils and staff, including entries dated 1902 and a pasted-in illustration relating to Sheridan's The Critic. In worn original bindings. Homer. The Iliad of Homer. Translated by Alexander Pope, with notes selected from Gilbert Wakefield's edition. London, 1817. Volume I only, with engraved portrait frontispiece. Dyer (G.). History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge. London, 1814. Volume II only, illustrated with engravings, in decorative gilt-stamped binding. Boswell (James). The Life of Samuel Johnson. Three volumes, Oxford English Classics edition, with printed paper spine labels. Prescott (William H.). History of the Conquest of Peru. One volume, in gilt-decorated leather binding. Bindings generally worn, rubbed and defective, with losses, foxing and staining; some incomplete works. The manuscript volumes are of particular local and educational historical interest.

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