Author: HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK
Title: Harvard College by an Oxonian
Description: New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. Hardcover. Ex-library copy. An early reprint of a history and guide to the Harvard College of the 1890s. With 13 plates, 12 of which depict campus scenes, and a tissue-guarded frontis photographic portrait of Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. Educated at Oxford's Pembroke College, George Birkbeck Hill was an English author, educator and editor. --- In full rust cloth-covered boards titling and cover illustration in gilt, top edge gilt. Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- The front free endpaper has been torn out, with a weakened front hinge, some chafing to cloth and with mildly rounded cover corners; otherwise a stable, sturdy copy. Evidence of prior ownership by a library limited to an apparent rubberstamping to title page which has been scraped off the page.; Ex-Library; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; xi, 337, (2, ads) pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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