The History of Mill Hill School 1807-1907. [Inscribed by the author Norman George Brett James to his mother, and with four pieces of ephemera.]

Author: 
Norman G. Brett James [Mill Hill School; J. R. Magrath, Provost of Queen's College, Oxford]
Publication details: 
London: Andrew Melrose, 3 York Street, Covent Garden, W.C. [1909.]
£180.00
SKU: 10558

8vo: xii + 416 pp. Fair, tight copy, on lightly-aged paper, in worn contemporary brown leather binding with the school's arms in gilt on both boards, marbled endpapers. Inscribed on flyleaf: 'To my very dear Mother from her loving son Norman. August 10. 1909.' Loosely inserted are two newspaper cuttings, the first being a 30-line undated term report, and the second a Daily Telegraph obituary of the school's headmaster Sir John McClure. Also included is a printed 2-page 12mo bifolium notice relating to the Old Millhillians' Club, dated 4 October 1902, and an Autograph Letter Signed (16mo, 2 pp) from J. R. Magrath (1839-1930), Provost of Queen's College, Oxford (4 May 1904, on the College's letterhead), acknowledging the receipt of a copy of the Mill Hill Register.