Buy this book on-line McFETRICH, DAVID: : A BRAMSTON Scrapbook. - Foreword by The Lord HemingfordUK.OUNDLE,PETERBOROUGH.OUNDLE SCHOOL,1992. ISBN 0951892509.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy,wrap-around,cream background with b/w House's facade photograph and black letteried title+author+foreword credit (The Lord Hemingford) to front panel of dw/dj,spine/ backstripo with similarly colour lettered title+ author name,and publisher's name to foot of same,rear panel with unknown artist's thumbnail b/w illustration and black lettered repeated title; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,cleran,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread,other than my own collation.Publisher's bright crisp,unblemished, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettered spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-200pp [paginated] includes Acknowledgements,a Foreword by The Lord Hemingford,a poem from House magazine,1934, author's Introduction,10 chapters and an Envoi, profuse contemporary b/w photographs, school magazines' b/w illustrations and b/w floor plans; plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w illustrated title page,and a contents list/table.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its age. It really is an exceptional copy for its cleanliness,brightness and its scarcity.
Bramston House is a Queen Anne town house built as a private residence by lawyer Stephen Bramston in 1701.It was purchased by the Grocers’ Company in 1917 when the School increased its numbers and is one of Oundle School's 14 boarding houses.A feature of the House is the fine garden area which includes a tennis court,as well as a substantial paddock with rugby posts,football goals and now,a new Astroturf cricket net.
One of the younger of those houses,it has always been more than a little different from the others.Did other Houses have poetry reading clubs in the 1950s patronised by athletes and aesthetes alike? Have they a bound set of House magazines,produced unfailingly year after year with only a four-year gap during the war? (and who,other than Bramstonians,would manage to miscount and celebrate the 50th number eaxctly two years late?)
Which other House can boast even one Old Boys' Club,never mind several which have enjoyed over 35 meetings between them?
1992 marks the 75th anniversary of Bramston's foundation and 'A Bramston Scrapbook' commemorates the event by recording these idiosyncracies,together with the history of the House,its buildings,and its somewhat special way of life,using both formal and informal sources.
The choice of material is eclectic,from doggerel lampooning a prefect's tendency to beat boys for a wide range of minor misdemeanours through to the majesty of extracts from Willie Walker's official 'History of the Oundle Schools'.
The author claims that Bramston is really just a large and extended family and he shows that nearly half the past and present members have had at least one relative in the House at some time.But Bramston,it seems,is also a rather buccaneering family,with an individualistic approach from which Oundle has and should continue to benefit.
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