Hardcover. 8vo. 307 pp, including 24 illustrations. In fine custom binding , full red leather with impressed gilt decorations to front and rear boards and spine with five raised bands; marbled endpages and all edges; partly printed, partly inscribed 1892 presentation label to one G.L. Tottenham for honors in Mathematics at St. Peter's College, Radley.   Boards a little nicked, edges and joints rubbed with a little splitting along the upper front joint, but overall solid and an attractive copy.

Radley College was founded in 1847 by William Sewell (1804-79) and Robert Corbet Singleton (1810-81). The Founders were inspired by the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church and aimed to create a school for boys where Christian principles of brotherliness were reinforced by the beauty of the environment and of the furnishings and objects which surrounded them. Daily choral services in a finely decorated chapel were a key aspect of the school, and remain so today. In addition, each boy had his own private space, an enclosed cubicle within a dormitory: this was a pioneering innovation which was rapidly adopted by other leading English public schools.