The Adventures of Mr Verdant Green, an ...

Crown, original green cloth, respined professionally with original laid down, no date but C19 ?1860s? and an early Blackwood edition with the same pagination as very early editions, vi + 118 + 108 + 112 pp., three separate adventures in one volume; v. sl. incipient foxing, but o/w vg. This amusing and profusely illustrated tale of an Oxford Victorian undergraduate is formally fiction [by a Durhm Univ graduate!] but is plainly spoof autobiographical. An interesting picture of Victorian life at Oxford, if not based also on Durham. Originally published in 1853. Case blindblocked with mortar board blocked with title on front; spine a bit faded with title & bowing figure blocked. Orig green eps. Size: Crown.  Bookseller Inventory # 003125