My Schoolfellows

No stated date c1892. First edition thus. [vii], 250pp., a 14-page publisher's catalogue, frontispiece and 5 other black and white illustrations. Ascott R. Hope was a pseudonym of Robert Hope Moncrieff (1846-1927), a prolific Scottish author of children's fiction and of Black's Guides. The present book contains sketches of some of his more memorable schoolfellows and the frolics, scrapes and adventures that they got into. The chapters are given the nicknames of his chums and include: Alexander the Great, Clever Kit, The Legend of Fitzfoodle, Guzzling Gus, Honest Harry, Lazy Lawrence, Queer Quentin, Tomfool, and Wally. The book is bound in the original blue cloth covered boards with gold titling and black illustrations on the spine and front board. There is a small blind-stamped design on the rear board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and soiling to the boards. The spine ends are bumped with a little damage to the cloth and there is rubbing down the spine edges with a small hole in the cloth on the front spine edge. The contents are tight and clean with a few pages having short red or black lines drawn on the fore margin. There is a large water stain on the front and rear endpapers, a pencil inscription and drawing on the front free endpaper and an ink inscription on the front fixed endpaper.…