Red cloth binding with black title on the spine.

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This is a rare book yet probably the best ever produced book on English public school life in the mid-Victorian era.

The Lanchester Tradition written in 1913 by Godfrey Fox Bradley is

a satirical novel set in a public school, about the conflict between a reforming headmaster and the teachers who resist his changes.

Godfrey Fox Bradby (1863–1947) was a schoolmaster at Rugby School, who also had a wide-ranging literary career. He wrote poems, novels, literary criticism and hymns. Born 1863, the son of Revd. Edward Henry Bradby (1826–1893) and his wife, Ellen Johnson (1836–1918). He grew up at Haileybury College, where his father was headmaster. He attended Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. At Oxford he gained a First in Classical Moderations in 1884 and a Second in Literis Humanioribus (as the degree title then was) in 1886. From 1887 until his retirement in 1920, he taught at Rugby. (See also this book’s forward!)