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CLIFTON COLLEGE FORTY YEARS AGO - THE DIARY OF A PRAEPOSTER

CLIFTON COLLEGE FORTY YEARS AGO - THE DIARY OF A PRAEPOSTER

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An account of the author's time at Clifton College in the 1880s. Newbolt was a very keen cricketer and there is much on cricket, including a team photograph of the 1883 eleven and accounts of matches at Lord's, Cheltenham, Sherborne and other schools

8vo. 176pp. Original blue boards. Bookplate. Foxing to edges of page block. Good condition.

Date
1927
Publisher
Philip ALLAN
Author
Sir Francis NEWBOLT

£22.00 (Code: 102527)

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