FIRST EDITION, 1913. Hardcover. Bound in dark blue publisher's cloth with the crest of the Wolverhampton Grammar School crest debossed in gilt on the cover. Spine is lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout with steel engravings in sepia tones and black and white. Some illustrations are bordered by a depressed border around the image. Frontispiece is a sepia engraving of Wolverhampton School from the South in 1750. Contains a list of illustrations with notes, twelve chapters, seventeen appendices, and a corrigenda et addenda. Indexed. xvi, 411 pp. Cover shows wear and some soiling. Pages are sometimes uncut at the head and foredge throughout. Light foxing, (particularly within the endpapers), yet leaves have evenly toned, are free from marginalia or creasing, and pagination is complete. A nice find. FROM THE PREFACE: The annals of the Wolverhampton School have long been neglected. A school, with a history of over four hundred years, has hitherto been dismissed in a few uncertain paragraphs. Speech makers at prize distributions have reiterated the vague and timeworn facts of the school's past in pitiable destitution. The present volume, in being the work of an outsider, is an exception to the rule; but most people have something better to do than to spend their spare time and money in continuous historical research, and at the time when I turned my attention in this direction there seemed very small likelihood of anyone else bringing the matter to a close. I owe apologies to all Old Wulfrunians for taking from them the task which is undoubtedly theirs. Seller Inventory # 068189

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Title: The History of the Wolverhampton Grammar ...

Publisher: Wolverhampton Printed by Steens Limited at the Old Grammar School Press

Publication Date: 1913

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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