Author: BRETT-JAMES, NORMAN G.
Title: The History of Mill Hill School. 1807-1923. (With 80 illustrations).
Description: Reigate: Thomas Malcolmson. The Surrey Fine Art Press, nd.(c.1923). 0. The school was set up in 1807 by a committee of non-conformist merchants and ministers. They decided to place their school outside of London because of the "dangers both physical and moral, awaiting youth while passing through the streets of a large, crowded and corrupt city". Their foresight has provided generations of Millhillians with quite unique surroundings, peaceful, secure and rural and yet within minutes of links to Central London. Top edge gilt. Pp.xv/503, Latin inscription + "From his friend the Author" dated July 30 1923 to front free endpaper, 80 illustrations & photos throughout.Blue cloth with gilt title and motif to front, gilt title to spine, spine dulled. G+.

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