Item #242137 Edwin J. Brett’s Jack Harkaway After Schooldays. His Adventures Afloat and Ashore. Volume I & II [complete]. Boys’ Adventure, Bracebridge Hemyng.
Edwin J. Brett’s Jack Harkaway After Schooldays. His Adventures Afloat and Ashore. Volume I & II [complete]

With Three Color Plates

Edwin J. Brett’s Jack Harkaway After Schooldays. His Adventures Afloat and Ashore. Volume I & II [complete].

London: “Boys of England” Office, n.d. [ca. 1880].

E.J. Brett edition, bound from 21 penny parts. Color wood-engraved frontispiece, two color plates bound after title, 21 full-page wood-engraved illustrations to text; 174, lacking vol. II title page [pp. 175-6], 177-335, [1, ad] pp. (continuous pagination), text in double columns. 8vo. With Three Color Plates. Contemporary green morocco cloth, later cloth spine label, spine darkened; near fine Summers, p. 372; not in James & Smith: Provenance: Phillip Richards (his signature, p. 1) and by descent to his daughter, Millie Stavordale (her signature to front pastedown). Item #242137

This installment of the Jack Harkaway series is attributed to Hemyng, though this copy bears the signature of Phillip Richards, who authored at least two titles in the series.

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