{"product_id":"wodehouse-p-g-t-m-r-whitwell-illustrator-the-gold-bat","title":"WODEHOUSE, P.G.; T.M.R. WHITWELL (illustrator). The Gold Bat.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eTarring and Feathering\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWODEHOUSE, P.G.; T.M.R. WHITWELL (\u003ci\u003eillustrator\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e The Gold Bat. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Adam \u0026amp; Charles Black\u003c\/i\u003e. 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Publisher’s red pictorial cloth by S.R. Bolders, spine and upper board lettered in yellow and black; 8 plates by T.M.R. Whitwell including frontispiece; pp. [8], 277, [1 (blank)], [2 (advertisements)]; contemporary chromolithographic scrap depicting a hen and her chick pasted to title-page verso; joints and extremities lightly rubbed, cloth somewhat darkened, top-edge dusty; endpapers somewhat soiled, light spotting to prelims, lightly toned; nonetheless very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition in book form, first printing of Wodehouse’s third novel, the first title to feature the fictional Wrykyn School.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gold Bat\u003c\/i\u003e follows two Irish students at Wrykyn, O’Hara and Moriarty, who, after the local mayor, Sir Eustace Briggs, makes disparaging remarks about Ireland, sneak out at night to tar and feather a statue of Briggs. They escape detection, but during the escapade O’Hara loses a tiny gold cricket bat he borrowed from his friend Trevor. The novel was first serialised in \u003ci\u003eThe Captain\u003c\/i\u003e from October 1903 to March 1904, with illustrations by Thomas Montague Radclyffe Whitwell (1868–1928), and published in book form on 13 September 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWrykyn School reappears in \u003ci\u003eThe White Feather\u003c\/i\u003e (1907) and \u003ci\u003eMike\u003c\/i\u003e (1909), and is mentioned occasionally in later Wodehouse works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMcllvaine A4a.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126332\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64900340187513,"sku":"2126332","price":950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126332.jpg?v=1792135196","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/wodehouse-p-g-t-m-r-whitwell-illustrator-the-gold-bat","provider":"Sotheran's","version":"1.0","type":"link"}