Tom Brown’s School-Days. By An Old Boy. With Illustrations by Edmund J Sullivan. London; Macmillan, 1896. First Edition Thus. Pp xvii, 312. Dark green buckram boards, richly decorated & lettered in gilt. Scattered spotting to outer margins of text & preliminary leaves, but overall a nice bright copy.

First published in 1857 & rarely out of print since, the book is set in the 1830s and features the adventures of Tom, a country squire’s son, who is sent to board at Rugby School (a school where the author attended).

Edmund J Sullivan was one of twelve children of the Irish-born art teacher, Michael Sullivan. A very versatile artist, he lectured on Book Illustration and Lithography at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art.