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TOLLER, T[homas] N[orthcote]
| Title | Outlines of the History of the English Language: The Cambridge Series for Schools and Training Colleges. Toller’s presentation copy to his wife Edith (daughter of Benson Rathbone, cotton broker of Liverpool). |
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| Publisher | Cambridge at the University Press |
| Date | 1900 |
| Book ID | 38160 |
Description
Small 8vo in original blue cloth, spine lettered gilt, title within decorative border and C.U.P. crest blind stamped to upper board. Charming decorative inscription to preliminary page: “Edith Toller from T T Dec 1900”.
In very good condition, clean and tight. Faint unobtrusive stain to upper board.
“Thomas Northcote was a professor of English; indeed, he was the first professor of that subject when the Manchester University was established, in 1880,... Thomas was born in Kettering... 1844. His father, Joseph, was a bookseller and printer with a shop in the Market Place... Professor Toller and Edith (née Rathbone) were married in the Toxteth Park area of Liverpool... 1889. Edith Rathbone was the daughter of Benson Rathbone, a very wealthy cotton broker in Liverpool. She (had been widow) to The Hon. Henry Romilly”. (Tony Goulding 2022).
