CHURCH, ALFRED JOHN 1829-1912 - Stories Of The Magicians : Thalaba and the Magicians of the Domdaniel; Rustem and the Genii; Kehama and his sorceries. By The Rev. Alfred J. Church, M.A. ; With Sixteen Illustrations.

London : Seeley & Co, 46, 47 and 48, Essex Street, Strand (late of 54, Fleet Street), 1887 . 0. A very good full leather binding. Gift presentation signed by Edward Compton Austen-Leigh. 8vo. 7.75" x 5.5" x 1.25". pp.viii / pp.309 . Polished tree calf binding, just light rubbing to edges. All page edges bright gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Light foxing to endpapers. Inscription to front free-endpaper: "Cyril Harry Walter from Edwd. Austen Leigh (Honoris Causa) Eton Election, 1888 Div. xxviii". ** "Alfred John Church (29 January 1829 – 27 April 1912) was an English classical scholar. Church was born in London and was educated at King's College, London, and Lincoln College, Oxford. He took holy orders and was an assistant-master at Merchant Taylors' School from 1857 to 1870. He subsequently served as headmaster of Henley-on-Thames Royal Grammar School from 1870 to 1873, and then of King Edward VI School, Retford, from 1873 to 1880. From 1880 until 1888 he was professor of Latin at University College, London. While at University College in partnership with William Jackson Brodribb, he translated Tacitus and edited Pliny's Letters (Epistulae). Church also wrote a number of stories in English re-telling of classical tales and legends for young people.." - See Wikipedia . *** "Edward Compton Austen–Leigh (1839–1916), son of the author James Edward Austen–Leigh (nephew to Jane Austen and biographer of “A Memoir of Janes Austen”) and graduate at the top of his class of both Eton and King’s College, later becoming an Assistant Master in 1861 of his first alma mater, and a permanent member of the Eton staff during the following summer. In 1887, Austen–Leigh became Lower Master of Eton cementing his legacy in the 1901 Vanity Fair’s “Men of the Day” (No. 811) titled “The Flea”." -.

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