The adventures of a three-guinea watch / by Talbot Baines Reed.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Religious Tract Society, [between 1900 and 1935]Manufacturer: (London ; Bungay : Richard Clay and Sons)Description: 340, [12] pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Recounts the progress of a fob watch from school to college, from England to India, where as a possession of an officer in Her Majesty's Army it takes part in the troubles at Lucknow.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Juvenile PZ7.R28 Ad 1900 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000026829

Originally published in 1883, compare BLC.

"The following stirring story of boy life, from the time of leaving home for school until early manhood, is taken from the pages of The boy's own paper."--Prefatory note.

Publisher's catalogue follows text.

Recounts the progress of a fob watch from school to college, from England to India, where as a possession of an officer in Her Majesty's Army it takes part in the troubles at Lucknow.

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A fictional novel for the juvenile reader (undated, but with dedication dated 1915), part of a series of morally edifying literature for young boys published by a religous publisher in London. Tells the story from the perspective of a pocketwatch.

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