- NOT A SUCCESS By the Author of "Our Valley", Rosebuds", "The Children of Seeligsberg".

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1890's approx Woodengraved plates [4] . 180x120mm olive green pictorial cloth gilt lettered to cover and spine (tips rubbed/spine very darkened and cloth slightly marked). Frontis. +titlepage +160pp +8pp publisher's catalogue. Prize bookplate to pastedown from Brighton St. Peter's National Schools dated 1896. A few signs of use but generally clean and tight and text highly readable. *Story of a boy who is doesn't apply himself at school, is sent to a tutor where he again avoids working hard but comes to admire his tutor. During a flood in the nearby town he behaves courageously and saves many mill families and at last his parents have something to be proud of. A story highlighting Victorian values. Not the 1879 edition of the book.

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