1854 Works of Rev. Sydney Smith fine leather prize binding Perceval House school

The Works Of The Rev. Sydney Smith

Complete In One Volume

A new edition, published by Longman Brown, London, 1854.

Bound in full morocco binding, with gilt tooling and raised bands; all edges gilt.

viii + 701 pages.

The Rev. Smith was an English writer of celebrated wit and wide ranging interests. An Anglican cleric, he lived from 1771 until 1845. 

This volume includes a large variety of Articles written by Smith: Account of Sierra Leone; Mad Quakers; Game Laws; Prisons; Man Traps and Spring Guns; Ireland; Poor-Laws; Chimney Sweepers; Cruel Treatment of untried Prisoners; Travels from Palestine; Necker's Last Views; Public Schools; Female Education; Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809; Botany Bay; and it also includes Letters on Railways and many other subjects. 

An elegant copperplate inscription tells us this volume was presented to Bradshaw Barker as a Latin class prize in 1867 at Perceval House by Wm. Keizer. This is the Perceval House military training school in Blackheath, run by William Keizer between 1860-1885; in October 1863, the school's football team became a founder-member of The Football Association.

Condition: Lightly rubbed to corners, the top and tail of the spine, and to the spine label; the binding is firm; the text is clean and bright.