First Illustrated Edition of Tom Brown's School Days

[Hughes, Thomas], TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS BY AN OLD BOY (London: Macmillan & Co., 1869).  First illustrated edition, 19 x 15cm (8vo), in publisher's dark blue sand-grain cloth w/gilt designs to fr. cover (blind to rear) & gilt title & design to spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., chocolate ep.s w/binder's ticket (Burn) to rear pastedown, [i-vii] viii-xxii [xxiii-xxiv], [1] 2-376 pp. w/tissue-guarded frontis portrait steel engraving by C.H. Jeens after George Frederick Watts & 43 wood engravings by J.D. Cooper after Arthur Hughes, & others after S.P. Hall.  Printed by R. Clay Sons & Taylor, London.  Binding Very Good (expertly rebacked w/most of the original spine laid down, & extremities moderately rubbed); contents Near-Fine.  Macmillan 48, White 136 & 170, Reid 8 & 92, Fredeman 93.15, Ray 176, de Beaumont 134, Goldman 257.  (Inv. #199)  C$300 (a Good copy in publisher's variant green cloth is also available, at C$200) Home Page