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Step into the Victorian era with a genuine 1859 illustrated volume that has survived more than 165 years. This blue-cloth copy of The Village School has exactly the kind of age, artwork, and old-book character that makes antique books so appealing to display and collect. Antique 1859 copy of The Village School, credited on the title page to Mrs. Perring; bibliographic sources identify the author as Eliza Perring. The photographed title page shows Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, Farringdon Street, London, the New York address 56 Walker Street, and the date 1859. The blue blind-stamped cloth binding retains an engraved frontispiece, tissue guard, and illustrated title-page vignette. A later 1863 'new edition' is institutionally cataloged, but no first-edition statement is visible in this copy, so this listing does not claim first edition. A standout survivor for collectors of Victorian children's literature, Routledge publications, antique schoolbooks, or 19th-century illustrated books.