The Compleet Molesworth, Willans, Geoffrey and Searle, Ronald. Published by the Folio Society, London, 2014. Third impression. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 397pp. with illustrations by Ronald Searle. Introduction by Wendy Cope. Bound in brown boards with black and yellow illustrations. Housed in a matching slipcase with colour illustration to one side. Volume is in fine, unread condition. Slipcase has very light scuffing to black panel. Contents: Down with Skool!, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms, Back in the Jug Agane.
Set in a minor private school in the 1950s, the four books that make up the ‘compleet’ edition are written (and comically mis-spelt) in the voice of Nigel Molesworth, a resistant schoolboy victim of a dysfunctional prep school, that was “built by a madman in 1836.” First published as the Compleet Molseworth in 1958.
