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Hardcover. Condizione: In quite good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full duck-backed quarter-bound blueboards, sans dust jacket, unpaginated. Illustrated with tipped-in sepia halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . The name, biography and photographs of one hundred Rugbeians whose deaths were recorded mostly between December 5th, 1917 and November 8th, 1918. Printed on fine heavy weight, deckled paper. Rugby School is a day and boarding co-educational independent school in Rugby, Warwickshire, UK. It is one of the oldest independent schools in Britain. Its re-establishment by Thomas Arnold during his time as Headmaster, from 18281841, was seen as the forerunner of the Victorian Public School. It is one of the original seven English Public Schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. . The Medici Society Ltd was founded in 1908 by Philip Lee Warner and Eustace Gurney. The company's original aim was to bring artists' work to the appreciation of a wider public through technically cutting edge high-end colour reproductions, with subjects chosen for their artistic value, beauty or sentiment sold "for the lowest price commercially possible".682 past pupils of this school (Rugbeians) lost their lives in the First World War. Their names are commemorated on three marble panels in the School Chapel. Outside the School Chapel is a hexagonal limestone cross, set in a small garden, which has the inscription: "In remembrance of the dead 1914-1919. The names are recorded in the memorial chapel"'.2 past pupils of the school served in the Yorkshire Regiment, and lost their lives in the First World War.There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie (who said of his time there: "Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too."[29]) and the Irish writer and republican Francis Stuart. The Indian concert pianist, music composer and singer Adnan Sami also studied at Rugby School.[30] Matthew Arnold's father Thomas Arnold, was a headmaster of the school. Philip Henry Bahr (later Sir Philip Henry Manson-Bahr), a zoologist and medical doctor, World War I veteran, was President of both Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Medical Society of London, and Vice-President of the British Ornithologists' Union.[31][32] Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly joined the army in 1915, straight after leaving the school, earned a Military Cross during the First World War, and later returned to the school as Director of Art.