Imps Of Promise. A History Of The King’s School, Canterbury.
Bound in original green cloth, gilt with coloured pictorial dust wrapper. Small dents on lower board edges and ink inscription on half-title. Otherwise a fine copy.
£18.00
Publisher
James and James (Publishers) Limited, 75 Carleton Road, London N7 OET.,
Date
1990
Item Description
4to. 8.5 x 11.5 inches. [x] + 118 pp. Illustrated with 12 colour plates and black and white photographs, drawings and engravings in text, including endpapers, half-title and title page.
Notes
'Imps of Promise, a phrase to describe young scholars used by John Boys (1571-1625), King's Scholar and Dean of Canterbury.' This recent history of The King's School is much more lavishly illustrated than its predecessors. The author writing under the pseudonym, Thomas Hinde, is Sir Thomas Wiles Chitty, 3rd Bart. (b.1926), who was educated at Winchester and University College, Oxford. His early novel, Happy as Larry (1958) associated him with the Angry Young Men movement. Since the late 70s, he has concentrated on non-fiction, including books on cottage homes, gardens, court life, forests and other school histories. James and James have published a number of histories of well known schools.
[Stock No. 22259]
Subjects
Canterbury • Education • History • Kent